Originally Posted by kingstontoon (Post 33138441)

Ah yes, I was going to report back on this. I flew on the BA1326 0945 LHR-NCL yesterday morning using Avios (slightly annoyingly as the £400 fare fell to £67 on Saturday). Approximately 15 in CE and 64 down the back, and I very much got the impression I was one of very few not connecting. I arrived at LHR two hours before departure and despite T5 being deserted everything appeared very normal and I didn't see hoardes of police / security questioning anyone going anywhere as to their reason for travel. I ordered a couple of the new Brewdog beers in advance and these were lovely, though it would have been nice to have got them before the freebies were handed out on such a short flight! 😁

I spent the day yesterday around Tyneside and Scarborough and unfortunately missed the last train back to London so had to stay in a hotel. Thankfully they were most accommodating with the "unable to return home" rule and I even got all my status perks! Today I visited Knaresborough and haven't seen so many people outside in one place for 13 months. All felt very jovial and safe though. Now on a £15 Grand Central train back to London. Where to go tomorrow I wonder?!

Originally Posted by 13901 (Post 33138169)

It's all going rather well.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...shire-56575135

Originally Posted by Internaut (Post 33138986)

Careful when falling for this kind of headline. I understand no spreader events were traced back to beaches and parks last year.

Originally Posted by Kgmm77 (Post 33139363)

Wouldn’t there have needed to be a functioning contact tracing and testing regime in place last year to make such a statement with any confidence?

Originally Posted by Internaut (Post 33138986)

Careful when falling for this kind of headline. I understand no spreader events were traced back to beaches and parks last year. This remains a difficult virus to catch outdoors.

Originally Posted by Internaut (Post 33138986)

Careful when falling for this kind of headline. I understand no spreader events were traced back to beaches and parks last year. This remains a difficult virus to catch outdoors.

Originally Posted by 13901 (Post 33139952)

The fact is that, by law, it's forbidden to meet more than 2 households. And this is not enforced (like mask wearing, anti-Covid protests and other things). But at the same time if you dare leaving the country it's £5k, if you come from places with less cases than we have it's 2 weeks in hotel, if you protest police killings you get arrested. I'd be willing to cut them some slack if it was the odd case, but this schizophrenic approach to Covid, this swinging from 'can't-be-arsed' to Robocop, has been going on since day zero...

Originally Posted by S_W_S (Post 33140038)

It was interesting to see the company running the York site tweet they're expecting more supplies, I thought supplies were going to be down significantly in April?

https://twitter.com/Nimbuscare1/stat...58603602153472

There was an article in the FT today about German rollout too - https://www.ft.com/content/bc5a3b02-...retype=blocked
I can't believe how much paper it requires! My jab was paperless here!

Originally Posted by DaveS (Post 33140065)

No it wasn't. You received that highly valuable and secure paper card!

Originally Posted by 8420PR (Post 33140124)

Have cruise lines been given advance notice by the UK Government? All the major ones are planning to restart UK cruising in May this year, which is an investment of hundreds of thousands of pounds per ship flying crew to Europe. As far as I can see all the cruises will be UK only with no stops at foreign ports, which is very unusual and would indicate they expect or have been told trips abroad to not be possible.

https://www.maritime-executive.com/a...summer-restart