Good news: five Greek islands removed from quarantine list, no countries added

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• TGLoyalty says:

  8 Oct8 October 17:24

  Added to the FCO exemption list rather than removed from?

  • Heathrow Flyer says:

    8 Oct8 October 17:35

    Yes.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    9 Oct9 October 08:55

    Still not fixed in the article though.

• Heathrow Flyer says:

  8 Oct8 October 17:34

  What’s Greece like in the Autumn? Are the islands just dead and the weather wet and mild? Or is it worth a visit?

  Thinking of somewhere for half-term.

  • Jody says:

    8 Oct8 October 17:39

    We did a Greek islands cruise last November. Was lovely weather in Santorini when we stopped there, and t shirt weather everywhere.

  • Richard M says:

    8 Oct8 October 17:44

    Most of them pretty-much shut down on 31 Oct.

  • Leo says:

    8 Oct8 October 19:06

    Yes it will be very quiet – after a quiet season they will be shutting up if not closed already.

  • Anna says:

    8 Oct8 October 19:48

    You’re taking a risk with the weather. I’ve been to the Greek islands twice in October – once it was glorious all week and the other time it was thunder storms for 4 days out of 7!

  • Coucou says:

    9 Oct9 October 09:58

    Dead, especially this year.

• Richard M says:

  8 Oct8 October 17:47

  Italy is effectively closed now because you require a Covid test on the way in.

  It just leaves Greece, Sweden and (only if you live in the south of England) Germany

  • TGLoyalty says:

    8 Oct8 October 18:01

    Didn’t think that had been brought in yet.

  • Simone says:

    8 Oct8 October 18:09

    The test when landing in Italy it’s free, at the airport and takes 30m

  • Jack says:

    8 Oct8 October 18:10

    Italy and Madeira too, no? The test on arrival isn’t really too tiresome. I did it when I went to Iceland and it was fine. Plus in Italy and Madeira the tests are free! I paid £60 roughly in KEF.

    • John says:

      9 Oct9 October 05:11

      And what happens if you test positive?

      • JPa says:

        9 Oct9 October 09:44

        In Italy you might end up on one of those special Covid hotels. There are a group of students who have been in one (in Florence) for seven weeks not allowed out of the room and served rubbish food. Can only leave with two negative tests, and they keep testing positive as seems to be picking up old fragments of the virus. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54188163

        There were some other British girls stuck in Sicily as well for 3 weeks (and counting).

        • JPa says:

          9 Oct9 October 09:46

          There are still there now: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8805591/Italy-coronavirus-Britons-quarantine-two-months-fear-mental-health.html

          That is enough to put me off Italy….

  • J says:

    8 Oct8 October 18:48

    Also free tests in Germany (or Berlin at least) for incoming travellers from high risk areas, at the airport or the central railway station. Why can other countries manage testing ok but not the UK?

    • Anna says:

      8 Oct8 October 19:49

      And why is it free in other countries but £150 here?!!

      • Jack says:

        8 Oct8 October 20:31

        No doubt in the public inquiry in the years to come we’ll discover that Johnson, Gove and Hancock were giving contract$ to their friends for a nice profit.

        • TGLoyalty says:

          8 Oct8 October 21:10

          We know that already!

• Char Char says:

  8 Oct8 October 19:35

  Im sure 2 of them don’t even have a proper airport, so unlikely popular with tourists.

  The restrictions are based on rubbish data and probably most of the tourists that contributed to the numbers rather than locals.

  • Coucou says:

    9 Oct9 October 10:00

    Obviously you don’t know and/or you haven’t been to those islands. They are popular.

• 8vio says:

  9 Oct9 October 10:15

  At VIE airport the test costs 120 EUR. No cash payments are allowed though.

• 8vio says:

  9 Oct9 October 10:19

  I think Italy will be removed next Thursday or at the latest on Oct 22nd, just not to let people go there for half term holidays. No matter what nubers will show.

• James Vickers says:

  9 Oct9 October 10:35

  Is there a reason why there hasn’t been a conversation about Gibraltar? We went back in August and thought would be a couple of weeks or so before it required quarantine especially being next to Spain but nothing yet..

  • Anna says:

    9 Oct9 October 14:32

    There don’t seem to be quarantine requirements returning from any of the BOTs that I’ve seen (though it doesn’t always work the other way). Not sure if they have some sort of hold over the government or they’ve just kept their infection rates really low.

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