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I was reading the thread about riding plans once lockdown lifted and a couple of posts were hopeful this was going on as normal.
But I’ve stumbled on a post from Torico bikes in Morzine that states it’s been rescheduled to 28-30 August.
Hope this helps.
Almost ideal, sadly 3 weeks late.
We’ll be there then if the lockdown is over. Looks like entry is already full though.
Will still be interesting to see some of the extra stuff going on. Was in Les Gets 2 years ago when crankworx was on and that was quite cool.
We 5 have taken their offer to defer to June 21, so I’ll have to pretend I was born in June 71 instead, not convinced it will go ahead in Aug and if it does whether restaurants and bars will be open. They are going to be doing a ticket resale so shouldn’t be too hard to get a place for August if things change.
A french guy on Pinkbike is saying that even if Morzine does open it will be for French citizens and the Schengen area only
Personally I dont think theres a chance in hell of it opening. I'm just waiting for the FCO/French advise to cover my travel dates to be transferred to 2021
It’s good news, sadly even though I can make it, about half of us (12) are either committed to family hols at the end of August or in a ‘holding pattern’ to see if they can get a family holiday in before schools reopen in sept (obviously nothing is certain).
We’re scrambling around to find a date most can make, move the AirBnB or cancel it (****ers say you can cancel, but you lose 50% or so in various fees) same with flights, EasyJet say you can swap, but I guess you’ll only get a credit for the cheap non-school hols flight you booked when they were cheap against end of season flights that are now expensive.
I’m coming to terms with the fact it’s becoming less and less likely we’ll be going this year and we’ll end up accepting their offer to roll over tickets for next year.
As for ‘French bloke on Pinkbike’ he doesn’t know anything anyone else doesn’t. Obvs Passportes is a cross-border event which brings its own challenges but “French and Schengen” seems a bit of a Brexit dig - Italy, the most infected nation on earth (until the Yanks said hold my Bud) in, Sweden which is going for a controversial ‘optional lock-down’ in, but the U.K. and Andora and Serbia out.
As above, even by August I can't see holidays being viable so it'll be locals/the french/Swiss only
He lives in Morzine and Macrons already said EU external borders will probably be closed till September Macron But like you say hes only lives in Morzine so what does he know
Grant Shapps has already let the cat out of the bag about summer holidays abroad not happening
Macrons already said EU external borders will probably be closed till September
But we’re still in the EU for now, so we’re in, and was Macron not talking about areas of the world where infection and recovery lag significantly behind Europe?
Being in the EU has zero to do with its external borders/schengen, so we're out
Hmmm. The only thing that’s clear from that Macron link is that it’s not clear.
The piece talks about the EEA, EU and Schengen area as if they are the same thing. Which we can all agree, they are not.
I note the specific geographic areas referred to were Africa, Asia and Trumpland.
The previous Schengen closure was apparently only for non-EU nationals - but I’d need that confirmed.
To be fair the “essential travel only” thing stopped most folk wherever they came from.
Apology accepted @IGM
As you probably now know (did you vote for brexit?) the UK are outside of the external borders/schengen. The external EU borders were closed down on 17th March, our borders are still open (bloody europeans telling us what to do)
mehr - there are many things wrong with the UK, but I can’t bring myself to hate Britain enough to vote for Brexit. Also I was always aware we didn’t join Schengen. Right, got that out of the way.
You may we’ll have got this better than me, but it’s not clear to me what the situation is regarding French, Schengen, EU, EEA or UK.
I hadn’t been looking to travel to France (well I had, but I couldn’t really argue a ski trip was essential and they’d closed the resort anyway) so I wasn’t really up on it.
However checking now, according to HM Gov (not the most reliable source of info I know) UK folk can still travel to France but they need to carry a lot of papers as to why. That’s as of 17 April.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/attestation-forms-for-travel-to-and-within-france
Checking the forms the same restrictions seem across the board - Schengen or EU.
https://mobile.interieur.gouv.fr/Actualites/L-actu-du-Ministere/Attestation-de-deplacement-et-de-voyage
Someone with better knowledge than me will be able to fathom this better, and the present rules don’t really apply to PPdS because if the situation hasn’t changed by then no one is doing it.