Overnight the U.K. government as expected announced quarantine measures for People returning from France. Not in any way unexpected.

We knew the risk when we came, so we just needed to manage the it.

Yesterday we spent some time exploring the options as it was absolutely on the cards. We weren’t able to get back from France before Saturday on any crossings we could get to. The speed of freckle means we can’t zoom up a motorway in the way a car could! We did move our ferry back in time to allow 14 days of quarantine before returning to school.

We also changed the reservation for the next campsite where we knew we could use an alternative site giving up the option of a pitch with private washing/toilet/kitchen facilities.

With these changes we feel we can keep us all as safe from the virus as possible.

We packed up the pitch with 2 very grumpy children from learning their mates weren’t joining us, and headed to the lake for a paddle board.

On the journey down we considered the option of coming back from Spain… the journey being significantly shorter in the van. The quarantine starts when you leave the country so it means we get to do the drive back from Plymouth during our quarantine too.

We arrived at vieux port around 4ish… got settled on our pitch and bbq’d for dinner.

The one thing the kids were adamant about doing was the toro piscine! We were a little nervous about our ability to distance at it… stew and I worked out if we went for a back row seat in the open air that the risk was manageable… everyone wore masks and no one was within a couple of meters! Pleanty of hand sanitiser and we were sorted!