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I assume your point on “staycation” was that it originally meant a holiday spent at home rather than in the UK. Time and usage have made this a lost cause, I’m afraid.
Baldassaro | 13.08.20 - 7:22 a.m. | #
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Eurostar might be full of strange people, but Eurotunnel is confining everyone to their cars and making it fairly safe that way. I went to my in-laws' beach caravan near Cherbourg last week. They hadn't seen their grandson since Christmas!
Chz | 13.08.20 - 7:44 a.m. | #
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“foreign travel may be something younger generations don't get the chance to experience”
In the 70s I lived in Israel, Denmark, Germany & Switzerland. I learned their languages & something about their culture. In ‘76 I travelled the old “hippy trail”, overland (where possible) from Zurich to Nepal, & from Thailand (witnessing the October revolution) to Hong Kong & Japan.
It was a life-changing experience that I’d hate young people to miss out on. But climate change means that people need to travel less, or at least a lot more sustainably, so I find myself torn between the two.
Toni | 13.08.20 - 8:00 a.m. | #
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Hopefully humans will get immune to Covid 19 in a few years either naturally or by immunization.
Rejoining the EU may take longer.
Living in another country for a time is something most young people should be able to do.
Package holidays-have them at home.
John | 13.08.20 - 8:12 a.m. | #
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Another interesting aspect to ponder is to what degree travel overseas may (may not?) return to previous levels once (if?) an effective vaccine is produced.
Glad you've highlighted the grating, widespread and incorrect use of 'staycation'.
Frank F | 13.08.20 - 8:13 a.m. | #
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Been on Eurostar to & from Paris in the last month. Seating properly social distanced. Very solid mask wearing though no regular patrol by staff to check up. One train seemed fuller than the other but it's probably less than 50%. Don't think individuals were having to share pairs of seats.
In France tgv's running up to 100% full. Unlike Eurostar buffet cars open and again most people behaving themselves but then I've seen tough action by French police against those not wearing masks. Yet to see that here.
Would use the services again.
ap | 13.08.20 - 8:32 a.m. | #
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If UK holidays were to become the norm over a sustained period I wonder whether we could look forward to investment in British seaside resorts? With one or two notable exceptions, many have become faded at best, or quite often down-at-heel and downright shabby. A possible short-term benefit, maybe.
Frank F | 13.08.20 - 8:41 a.m. | #
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Particularly difficult times for international families. We have relatives in Canada, Japan and the Philippines.
Keith | 13.08.20 - 8:42 a.m. | #
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One positive from all this is that European rail operators are reintroducing various sleeper train routes which have been cut for years. Apparently people prefer a spacious train compartment to cramped plane seats, who knew?
anonymous | 13.08.20 - 9:18 a.m. | #
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We all have our own views. I have not actually been abroad for many years but that does not mean I would not in the future. Loved loads of holidays in Germany and Austria years ago. My use of train and tube is back at the level it was before lockdown. New 'abnormal' must not be allowed to happen.
davews | 13.08.20 - 9:27 a.m. | #
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The current Covid situation has led to my longest period in the UK for a decade, now standing at 5 months.
The reduction in business travel in particular is beneficial both for the planet and family life, even if the economy would probably prefer me to continue to shuttle around European cities.
TomH | 13.08.20 - 9:36 a.m. | #
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UK holidays are indeed often excellent, but are also extremely expensive in comparison to many overseas destinations. Most families simply cannot contemplate spending over £1000 solely on their accomodation and food for two weeks.
Arlu | 13.08.20 - 9:38 a.m. | #
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Mass tourism kills its hosts. Possibly now literally rather than figuratively. Less and better would not be a bad thing.
We have become too blase about 'hopping over to X for the weekend'.
Climate change could benefit from less travel.
The UK is beautiful and diverse: heat and sun are over-rated. There is no 'right' to two cheap weeks in Benidorm.
David | 13.08.20 - 9:42 a.m. | #
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Big gap in your analysis- people who travel to visit family. My family live on the other side of the world and I haven’t seen them since I moved to the UK two years ago and who knows how long it will be now. Need to weigh up all the factors you outlined (risk, cost, quarantine) against how much I want to see them.
LL | 13.08.20 - 9:53 a.m. | #
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The Algarve has seen 15 Covid deaths during the pandemic. 15. In total.
I can't go there to see my Portuguese friends without self-isolating when I come back.
What bolleau.
Chris | 13.08.20 - 10:18 a.m. | #
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the killer is the quarantine - otherwise excellent opportunity for foreign travel , with fewer tourists and city hoppers competing for space. I am looking forward to last minute city visits to Italy and Spain and Portugal , once the coast is clearer.
Hubert Berlye | 13.08.20 - 10:50 a.m. | #
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(the killer would be no quarantine)
(but we know what you mean)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 13.08.20 - 11:10 a.m. | #
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Since travel restrictions were lifted in July on foreign travel, my family rushed to hire a villa in the Ardèche region of France. We have have been here since 12 July, in various family combinations, I myself will hand the villa back to the owners on the morning of the 28 August.
Michael | 13.08.20 - 11:32 a.m. | #
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London is an international city with family connections from all over the world. Most long haul flights have become cheaper in recent years as a result of more business travel subsidising the cheaper seats. Will this change? Who knows, but international travel will be back sooner than people think. On a side note, a 2 week holiday in Asia (including flight) is almost always cheaper than an a equivalent stay in the UK when food an accommodation is factored in.
J | 13.08.20 - 11:35 a.m. | #
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It's all very reminiscent of 9/11. They thought that would be the death of the air industry with people unwilling to fly anymore.
I've not felt the need to go abroad for many years now - there's so much to see and do here, but climate change, Brexit, recession and danger (in whatever form it may take) just serve to strengthen that feeling.
The danger of not experiencing other countries and cultures is that we will become even more insular as a nation, and I think we have already seen what that leads to.
Cornish Cockney | 13.08.20 - 11:37 a.m. | #
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The change of meaning in "staycation" (simply what we used to call a "holiday" as they were usually in the UK anyway) reminds me of the way "golden handshake" was joined by the term "golden hello" and eventually the original term itself was replaced by "golden goodbye".
Cau1khead | 13.08.20 - 12:05 p.m. | #
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"Flight...requires you to spend hours in a small metal tube with recycled air" - that's not necessarily a big risk. Most modern planes pass any recycled air through a HEPA filter, which is as good as it gets. The rest comes from the engines (i.e. outside). All the air in the entire cabin is exchanged about every 2 minutes, which is vastly more frequent than an office (and probably Eurostar/trains)
Dave | 13.08.20 - 1:54 p.m. | #
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I was inspired by one of the comments to look up if this is the longest time between flights / countries visited. It's the longest time since I've been on a plane since 2012, and the longest since I've been abroad (by the definition in the post) since 2005.
R | 13.08.20 - 6:41 p.m. | #
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Thanks for the insight into your writing provided by your essay notes. It reveals to me me how much I appreciate your polished writing. Every day is a pleasure to read.
Lorraine | 13.08.20 - 7:14 p.m. | #
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Hey presto that's France added to the UK's quarantine list, and travelling abroad just got a whole load less appealing.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 13.08.20 - 10:03 p.m. | #
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A couple more things to add to the reluctance to travel abroad list maybe: long mask times and restrictions that end.
I was due to head to California next month. Ignoring the ban on that by both governments involved, by the time I travelled to the airport, waited there, flew, and got through the airport at the other end, that’s probably 16 or so hours of constant mask-wearage, which doesn’t strike me as all that pleasant. And then, so much is closed or restricted there, it really wouldn’t have been the vacation I had planned for.
Looking forward to my two weeks in a cottage by Hadrian’s Wall instead... not the same, but for this year at least, very much better.
MightyMouse | 13.08.20 - 10:51 p.m. | #
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As far as I know the latest restrictions mean it will no longer possible to arrive in the UK from the rest of europe & not have to quarantine except by plane. That's assuming the via the Irish Republic loophole has been closed which I think it has.
ap | 13.08.20 - 11:51 p.m. | #
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Additional bullet points (thanks):
• Particularly difficult times for those with international families
• Long period of mask-wearing acts as a deterrent to long distance travel
• Many travel destinations currently have restricted facilities (so best wait and go later)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 14.08.20 - 9:01 a.m. | #
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I was supposed to be going on a family holiday to France, oooh, tomorrow. Booked it last November.
We actually postponed it until next year back in June as we suspected something "would happen".
Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 14.08.20 - 4:22 p.m. | #
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I wonder what restrictions would be imposed (and where) if you fly to Belfast, get a train to Dublin, then fly to the continent, or vice versa.
kev | 14.08.20 - 7:24 p.m. | #
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