Are you planning to visit your holiday home?

I was somewhat taken aback too Granny23 (by GG’s post about Scotland!)
Hers was the only invective I could see.
Where on earth did this observation come from and In any case, what arrogance - Is this typical of what we used to refer to as the “White Highlands” when we lived in South London!

Thoughtful your only home is in North Wales and you have
lived there over 40 years ?

Telephone your local police station in North Wales and your GP, you must be registered there, telephone your neighbours and your friends .

Again, if this your only home, good luck.

I have a small holiday home in Spain, Elizabeth - alas we’re not allowed in the country so much good it is!

Granny23 the poster in question must be very sad and lonely. We shall pray for her
Luckily I didn't see the evil posts or I might have had apoplexy

I wish Scotland would just pack-up and toddle off into the North Sea...*some*where...*any*where. Sick of reading the hate emanating from some posts on the other side.

What brought that on Gabreiella ? The only hate filled post I see on this thread is yours.

Wish I had a holiday home - in Spain

That's a shame Thoughtful I don't know what the situation is like in England or Wales as we are definitely in lockdown here in Scotland but surely your driving, in your bubble, to your own home is permissible.
Although there are rules, I hardly think we are not allowed to use our discretion. Nanny state and all that.

Why not contact the police or local council and ask for a letter? My delivery girl has two letters now in case she is stopped on route. She helps many of us oldies in the county.

What a worry for you Thoughtful

I would like to think you would be ok going home as it’s your main home.

Hopefully if you were stopped by the police, they would use their discretion especially if you explained how worried you were about your home.

It would take a very officious one to make you turn back, but who knows.

They do vary as we saw early on in the lockdown when drones were used to spot hapless dog walkers on deserted peaks.

Thankfully that over zealous reaction was nipped in the bud.

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Thoughtful that is really difficult. I would have thought you were an exceptional case; could you contact someone for advice?

My home is in North Wales, and have owned the bungalow for over 40 years now. I was visiting my daughter and family, in Lancashire when the Lockdown blew up. I am over 75 and feel very frustrated that I cannot go to my own home, much as I love staying with my daughter and family. When I go home, and I have been here 10 weeks now, I will take my youngest grandchild with me. The Welsh Police are really on the ball, and would probably stop me at the border. I cannot deal with any unpleasantness so am hoping everything is ok there...and I know one of my neighbours is keeping an eye on the property from the outside, but who knows what the inside will be like. For a start all my many plants will be dead.!! A difficult time, but we have to put up with it.

We had a run down to the south coast yesterday just over an hour’s drive.We took a picnic, had a lovely long walk along the seafront, then sat in the sun eating lunch, but yes the toilets were closed!

Luckily we had used the ones in the petrol station on the way down and called into the motorway services on the way back.

We were told the council toilets are reopening this Saturday.

There were other people there enjoying the sunshine but there was plenty of room to keep to the prescribed distance, and the rather stiff breeze helped of course !

I think Van Tam made a valid point yesterday when asked why French people were being allowed to go to their holiday homes or rented gîtes and we weren't. He explained France has a slightly smaller population than the UK and nearly 3 times the surface area, so French people can spread out more and tuck themselves away in rural houses or along expansive coastlines. As a previous poster here said the quaint little seaside resorts in Britain are packed in summer, for example Salcombe has 1750 residents and this swells to 25,000 in summer, 60% of properties being second homes. Any infection would take hold immediately like it did in London and the local infrastructure simply could not cope. So geography plays a huge part too. One of the advantages of living in a sparsely populated country like New Zealand.

Travelling for a day means you will be needing a toilet, surely? They are all locked up where i am

Petrol?

You create more traffic which is a bad thing even if it is now legal. More RTA's will not help anyone. what about a breakdown?
Am so angry Govt opened travelling. Another spike expected then in 3 weeks........we have only just cleared Covid out of our village we don t want second homers or day trippers and the toilets are all locked.

Emmets; when I lived in Cornwall it was always the first/second generation Cornwall dwellers that used to moan about the emmets, not the ones whose families had lived there for generations. Not sure if things have changed now, though. Long time since I've been back.

LinkyPinky - do you really think people in the rest of the country feel any better re infrastructure than you do? It's all dreadful wherever we are. Hope all stays well where you are.

Ours is in Cornwall, close to where our daughters and their families live. We've had it for over 35 years. We can't go, of course as we're 270 miles away, which is fine but from the horrible hostility I've seen on social media, I'm not sure I'd feel safe anyway. If our cars didn't have Cornish numberplates (as they do) I'd be quite worried. Down there, they seem to think that anyone from east of the Tamar is a disease-ridden danger, sent specifically to infect an entire county.

My DD lives in an area of Scotland very popular with tourists. The police have already scooped up families of picnickers, hill walkers, cyclists and I daresay some 2nd home owners.

Where they are, if someone got into trouble on the loch - and they have been swimming and boating - DD would be the first port of call. She is NOT amused.

As paddyanne says Scotland is closed.

Well today my husband and myself went to our local seafront, about 10 minutes drive away. It was awful, I haven’t been down in the car for two months, and it was packed. We tried to do a short walk, there were people obviously meeting up in pairs socially distanced across the path, family groups across the path, dogs on long leads across the path and bikes weaving in and out at top speed- across the path. We were walking single file trying to keep our distance but it wasn’t enjoyable at all so we came home. I’ll stick to my walks around the block and exercise videos, my nerves won’t stand it otherwise. I understand we all want to get out and about, but I was honestly shocked by the total disregard by so many of social distancing. Normally I love the seafront, even on busy days but not under these circumstances. It is a Devon location, so please stay nearer home until things really improve.

I guess the May bank holiday will be the main test to see how many people decide to go to their second home, especially if the weather is good.

We are not going yet but do hope to later in the summer.

It’s just a case of monitoring the situation. By July if restaurants and pubs are open it could well be business as usual in all the holiday hotspots.

Ours is parked up too, Happyme! We sometimes have tea in there

Well I never, I didn't know I had a holiday home!

Visit my holiday home most days, mind it is parked in the drive! Mr Happy desperate to stay overnight but have told him it isn't allowed

I live in the West Country. We are in absolute DREAD of second homers arriving. Please don’t come here. There is not the infrastructure to cope.

In answer to the post above Scots are NOT allowed to travel any distance from home for ANY reason and certainly not to a holiday home even in Scotland .No one is racist we're dealing with the pandemic in the way thats best for our country .Hospitals outside of the central belt are few and far between its very selfish of anyone travelling to an area with little resources thinking they are entitled to use those facilities .So no one can cross the border except on essential business ,that doesn't mean sitting on a beach or climbing a mountain.Like Wales SCOTLAND is closed