Holiday in Brittany anyone?

My travel agent says that my easyjet flights will fly to Greece at the end of the month. If they do I will go. As my holiday there on an Island is cancelled I have rebooked with an english land lady in a villa near Athens airport. I have advised her that if the plane does not fly I will not be in Greece. So its a proposal only. Difficult times.

I am now collecting, sanitiser, masks, soap etc.

whew! I am so glad that I have no desire to go on holiday

Praying everyone, where ever they are, what ever they do, keep safe.

Not just Britanny. pay de la Loire and Moyenne also increasing in their R rates. A friend of mine went to France on Britanny ferries recently and said it was well organised and she felt safe. I would love to go as have a voucher from a cancelled holiday at Easter but husband is very cautious.

I agree that chances of a break are evaporating. We were booked to go to France with Brittany ferries but they cancelled our sailings. I would risk booking a break in September but I'm put off by the insurance both the cost of it and the terms surrounding CV19. I live on the coast in Scotland and really feel for the businesses and the visitors. Many locals don't want any holidaymakers and the businesses are crying out for tourists. What a sad situation for everyone.

maddyone the good thing about going to Brittany is that you won't be sitting on a plane with lots of other people. If you're travelling with Brittany Ferries you will be in your own car until on the boat and then you have to remain in your cabin throughout the crossing. They call people at intervals to go back to their cars, so very little contact with other passengers.
Brittany itself is spacious and the beaches, especially on the south coast are expansive. Plenty of space for everyone.

Carillon, your post at 20, 12 describes Brittany as a rural community. It is, in fact, a region. I live not too far from London and I certainly do not have a cavalier attitude to the pandemic, quite the opposite. One should not generalise.

Luckily we had not yet booked anything yet, although my son and his family have booked a house in Brittany for two weeks, the same house he went to last year. He has cancelled his planned holiday to Florida and the Disney Parks as clearly it is not advisable to go to America, and a holiday is hardly essential travel. He has invited us to join them for a week as they’ll have a spare bedroom, but I’m awaiting developments.

Hetty You’re right of course, but I was disappointed. We, like thousands of others, have cancelled two planned holidays this year, one to Skiathos in June, and another with our daughter and her family, to EuroDisney and driving down to the Black Forest area with them. I absolutely understand that we are not unique in having to cancel holidays, nor are we as retired people, going to become unemployed, as many others unfortunately will. But I do think it’s natural to feel able to plan something nice, and as Brittany seemed a fairly safe destination, we thought a week or so in a cottage would have made a pleasant change. We would have been taking our custom to the area, we were planning to be fairly isolated, and we had decided we would not eat in restaurants or cafes, but cook for ourselves.

Of course I accept your apology Carillion I understand that you do not wish to have Covid19 brought to the area you live in, but I doubt that the community around you is any more caring than many other communities the world over, during this terrible pandemic. Many Gransnetters have given testimony to the kindness of their communities during this difficult time. None of us are in the first flush of youth, and I doubt many, if any of us have been on crowded beaches, partaking in marches and demonstrations, or engaging in careless behaviour over the last few months. Most of us battened down the hatches and got on with lockdown, just the same as you did.

maddyone, it's not a case of 'any chance of a few days escape' being ruined. There are plenty of other places to go.

This link might reassure you Carillion01

www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2020/07/18/covid-19-la-bretagne-fait-face-a-une-circulation-plus-active-du-virus_6046612_3244.html

Carillion01 I do think you are being a bit over sensitive here. Both the OP and I were talking about the geographical area of Brittany, not its people. Of course loved ones who couldn't attend funerals weren't let off lightly wherever they lived, but the region of Brittany itself did escape the ravages of covid19 in a way that eastern and northern France and Paris did not. Like Devon and Cornwall, the region was lucky because it was behind other areas in the number of infections. The residents of Brittany are no more caring and careful as you describe than those of Alsace, Pas de Calais or Mayenne, so it would seem churlish to gloat over one region's good fortune.

It has been widely reported.

I think we will see localised spikes, unfortunately.

Personally I'd rather stay at home and avoid other people wherever possible. Better safe than sorry. Easy for me to say as I live near the sea but believe me the beaches of Anglesey are no longer attractive since the hordes arrived last weekend.
I don't think maddyone meant to be offensive Carillion, she was just repeating what she'd heard and expressing concern that nowhere is going to be completely safe for a long time, even beautiful Brittany.
We're all a bit sensitive at the moment.

There is absolutely nothing distateful about maddyone's OP, Carillion

It is factual and a worrying trend which we may see more of in all countries, particularly holiday areas, as people venture out more.

I'd wait and see, maddyone, it could be a temporary blip which settles again after the first flurry of visitors.

Maddyone, Brittany isn’t a holiday destination for me or a second home. I have lived here for a good while.
During the pandemic I have followed daily health bulletins because I have needed to. From France24, Sky, BBC et al.
So my comments are not unnecessarily harsh but realistic. However if I have offended you I apologise.my views however remain the same.

And as I understand it, the Parisians are the ones most likely carrying Coronavirus into Brittany. The British are not yet on holiday mostly, and at this stage cannot be blamed.

biba
Should have said I meant thank you for picking up on the unnecessarily sharp retort. It’s not needed.

Thank you biba.

2 regions are now in red alert, the SE coast and Britanny. Fact.

I would suggest that anyone who wasn’t able to attend the funeral of their loved one would be upset and hurt. It doesn’t matter where a person lives, the pain is the same.

biba70, Nantes was a ‘hotspot’. There were fewer cases in the Morbihan and less in Cores D’Armor.

And why is it ill informed? I knew the R rate was low in Brittany, and now I know it’s rising. This is a fact. Why is it ill informed?
I find your post Carillion to be unnecessarily sharp. Brittany welcomes holiday makers from all over Europe normally, and is happy to do business with those travellers. My family have holidayed in Brittany many times over many years. I fail to see why my post is either distasteful or ill informed.

Ellianne...’got off lightly’ ? . .. maybe people in Devon, Cornwall and Brittany who didn’t manage to attend the funerals of their loved ones wouldn’t see that as getting off lightly.

2 choices, either go and take a chance or remain cooped up
until next year. This is how it's going to be and the reason for the wearing of masks.
I'd say at this stage that it's a personal choice. It'll be the same wherever you go.
I'd rather wait until this time next year until it possibly could be all clear . What's the rush to go away ?

Carillion Britanny was in red alert again last week - so your comment is really distasteful and unfair.