Summer holidays 2020

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Smiler.

11,752 posts

229 months

Saturday 4th July 2020
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Arrived at a holiday cottage in Devon today.

Traffic was very slow/stopped at Stonehenge (07.30).

Still, totally worth it.


MiniMan64

16,863 posts

189 months

Saturday 4th July 2020
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All the nutters coming down here this weekend and it’s the worst weather in weeks!

mkjess12

52 posts

91 months

Saturday 4th July 2020
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The Grockles and Emmets should bugger off!

DoubleSix

11,691 posts

175 months

Saturday 4th July 2020
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mkjess12 said:
The Grockles and Emmets should bugger off!
And the day they do, you’ll be f**ked!

troika

1,862 posts

150 months

Saturday 4th July 2020
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DoubleSix said:
mkjess12 said:
The Grockles and Emmets should bugger off!
And the day they do, you’ll be f**ked!
Makes me laugh. I grew up in Cornwall (Truro / Falmouth). The locals really despise emmets, yet as you rightly say, would be completely screwed without them. They really are the most miserable bunch of people one could ever meet. Their utopia would be to empty the wallets of all emmets at the border and tell them all to F off back to where they came from. So many other places to go and receive a genuinely friendly welcome.

ClaphamGT3

11,269 posts

242 months

Saturday 4th July 2020
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We went down to Somerset for lunch with some friends today. The traffic on the M3 and A303 was absolutely mad. Caravans and camper vans everywhere. Cars clearly loaded up for holidays. Christ alone knows what it will be like when the schools break up....

EddieSteadyGo

11,724 posts

202 months

Saturday 4th July 2020
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ClaphamGT3 said:
We went down to Somerset for lunch with some friends today. The traffic on the M3 and A303 was absolutely mad. Caravans and camper vans everywhere. Cars clearly loaded up for holidays. Christ alone knows what it will be like when the schools break up....
Many schools broke up on Friday, and many children weren't in school anyway, so with today being the first "legal" day to travel to a holiday property, I would think today would have been the peak day.

mkjess12

52 posts

91 months

Saturday 4th July 2020
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Oh I forgot that the whole of Devon and Cornwall would be f----d without tourists......

A typically naive view from the self righteous ill informed! Yes, visit the SW and have a great time, but I can assure you that many down here have occupations that are not in any way connected to tourism.

EddieSteadyGo

11,724 posts

202 months

Saturday 4th July 2020
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mkjess12 said:
Oh I forgot that the whole of Devon and Cornwall would be f----d without tourists......

A typically naive view from the self righteous ill informed! Yes, visit the SW and have a great time, but I can assure you that many down here have occupations that are not in any way connected to tourism.
Bore off. You are an ignorant bigot. This thread is for talking about holidays - not your petty prejudices smile

DoubleSix

11,691 posts

175 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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Amen

troika

1,862 posts

150 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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mkjess12 said:
Oh I forgot that the whole of Devon and Cornwall would be f----d without tourists......

A typically naive view from the self righteous ill informed! Yes, visit the SW and have a great time, but I can assure you that many down here have occupations that are not in any way connected to tourism.
Codswallop, but of course, a typical and predictable view.

djc206

12,245 posts

124 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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mkjess12 said:
Oh I forgot that the whole of Devon and Cornwall would be f----d without tourists......

A typically naive view from the self righteous ill informed! Yes, visit the SW and have a great time, but I can assure you that many down here have occupations that are not in any way connected to tourism.
1 in 5 jobs in Cornwall are related to the tourism industry. I think it’s fair to say without it the county would be pretty fked. Devon not so much.

anonymous-user

53 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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djc206 said:
mkjess12 said:
Oh I forgot that the whole of Devon and Cornwall would be f----d without tourists......

A typically naive view from the self righteous ill informed! Yes, visit the SW and have a great time, but I can assure you that many down here have occupations that are not in any way connected to tourism.
1 in 5 jobs in Cornwall are related to the tourism industry. I think it’s fair to say without it the county would be pretty fked. Devon not so much.
Like Cornwall, Devon has a pretty elderly population and lots of retired people living there, they’ve also been relatively untouched by the virus compared to other parts of the U.K.

It must be quite worrying for these areas as we transition from lockdown to normality (or more fluid and local lockdowns), seeing restrictions reduce and everyone heading there from the cities.

Obviously some really want the tourist money but others must think quite the opposite. Like normal really. hehe

survivalist

5,614 posts

189 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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DoubleSix said:
Anyone got a definitive answer to the position where the airline (easyJet) cancels you outbound flight but says nothing about the return leg??
You should be able to request a refund based on your booking reference, which covers both flights. Took 6 weeks for mine to come through though. Apparently if you call them you’ll get the refund immediately, you might spend a while on hold though.

ro250

2,734 posts

56 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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survivalist said:
You should be able to request a refund based on your booking reference, which covers both flights. Took 6 weeks for mine to come through though. Apparently if you call them you’ll get the refund immediately, you might spend a while on hold though.
I know it's not easyJet but BA will refund both if only one leg is cancelled.

piers1

826 posts

193 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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We popped to Ringwood on the A27, to pick something up yesterday, the number of caravans at Rownhams services was unbelievable, mainly retired couples would be my observation, as well as car loads of late teens/early twenties shouting from their cars as they head off for holidays now the pubs have opened.All heading west, a mate was on the A303 at the same time and said it was very slow with caravans

RizzoTheRat

25,085 posts

191 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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Huge amount of caravans and campers on the road crossing the Netherlands today, shame it rained most of the day. Airborne museum at Osterbeek is worth a visit though.

chip*

1,005 posts

227 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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survivalist said:
DoubleSix said:
Anyone got a definitive answer to the position where the airline (easyJet) cancels you outbound flight but says nothing about the return leg??
You should be able to request a refund based on your booking reference, which covers both flights. Took 6 weeks for mine to come through though. Apparently if you call them you’ll get the refund immediately, you might spend a while on hold though.
I claimed my refund after receiving cancellation email for both the outbound and return legs (return emails came 4 days later). It took just over 7 weeks for the refund to hit my credit card account. Overall, a pretty stress free process.

75Black

735 posts

81 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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I should have done it before the announcement of the air bridges as flights went up by £100 or so but I bit the bullet and booked flights to Dubrovnik for the end of August (22-30). Not a ton of flights and the ones that were available were booking up quick. Going easyJet there and BA back, £210 all in for myself.

PushedDover

5,623 posts

52 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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the raping by airport parking seems normal. £80 for a week onsite at Manchester in August......