To cross the boarder or not?

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According to todays paper
DUTCH day-trippers are fleeing the coronavirus lockdown in the Netherlands in their droves to cross the border to Belgium, where shops and restaurants remain open
Crowds at Antwerp Central station yesterday, many visiting from the Netherlands
Hugo de Jonge, the Dutch health minister, yesterday pleaded with people not to go to Belgium after cities near the border, such as Antwerp, witnessed jammed parking lots, traffic jams and overcrowded trains.
The Netherlands announced a strict Christmas lockdown to try and halt the fast-spreading omicron variant

Could this be Edinburgh Waverley or indeed Riccarton junction?

Pubs aren't closed in Scotland.

I listened to a discussion on this on the way to work. A man who has a pub/restaurant near the border was far more annoyed that English pub owners would be making money out of Scots border crossers than he was worried about the transmission of the virus. He thought Scotland shouldn’t be closed, because law abiding people like him would lose out to off-licences and supermarkets and even the occasional less law abiding pubs.

According to theZOE map, apart from Dumfries and Galloway, either side of the border seems as infectious as the other. Those that will will, sure it won’t be many. Not the only country going from one to the other, as all closed in Netherlands, they went over to Germany, doesn’t matter where you are in the world, the I’ll do what I like attitude persists.

People will do what they will, and I don't really care where they go if they want to get a skinful. It's up to others to keep away from them if they feel they might have been infected through too much socialising.

I think you may find OP, this would not be the first instance guidelines have been broken within the UK and NI as other nations paid no heed when deciding to visit nations regardless of the tighter guidelines elsewhere during this pandemic.

It is a sad reality of selfish individuals who put their wants before the safety of others, throughout the UK and NI, not just one country.

A selective memory indeed OP.

I don’t know, I might get too bored/board !

MayBeMaw

If nothing else, I think we have now established the difference between a boarder and a border.

Just call it a frontier MayBeMaw organise a few games and have a knockout.

I know quite a few Scotsmen around here, both sides of the border but all will be staying in celebrating quietly with their OHs.

Our hymns and arias might make the Scottish boarders even more cross Calistemon - it’s okay though as if they reject us we will always have Ross on Wye (or Monmouth) to retreat to, they will keep a welcome in the hillsides…..

If nothing else, I think we have now established the difference between a boarder and a border.

Oh yes, it's infectious

mokryna

And NHS staff in ICU are falling sick. So where will the party goers be in a week’s time?

Exactly that is why M/S Sturgeon asked them not to go into Northumberland and Cumbria it's a big risk for others just for a skin full.

border even.

I know a few good pubs just across the boarder, Casdon
One might hold a lock-in on Friday!

You take the high road and I’ll take the low road Calistemon!

And NHS staff in ICU are falling sick. So where will the party goers be in a week’s time?

Ooh, where?

The night is dark and full of Scotsmen. ?

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Winter is coming!?

lemongrove

Hope there will be no invaders ( white walkers)getting past the wall....where are the Watch when you need them?

All patrolling Offa's Dyke stopping the Welsh visiting English country village pubs.

It is OK, Yammy If no-one in the northern counties is out in the pubs or on the streets celebrating the New Year, but they are all indoors with a mug of cocoa having an early night like the sober sensible citizens we know they all are, there will be no-one for the hordes of marauding Scots to share their CoVid-tainted whisky bottles with, so you will be quite safe.

If they take in boarders, they will just have to confiscate all alcohol at the door.

Crikey are we all from the North, who knew? I'm in county Durham now but previously was in Northumberland. I am not sure that the Scots will cope with our no coat, (or any other clothes to speak of) clubbing regime but they are welcome to try it.

For Pete's sake! I live on the boarder with Scotland and went shopping there yesterday. What difference will crossing from one to the other really make? Talk about creating resentment and division.