Why not NHS test for travel

SingleSue

Sandtree said:

SingleSue said:
For the record, you don't need to go abroad to have a holiday and neither is having a holiday abroad a guarantee for nice weather, I speak from experience from a rained out Spanish holiday (the day we arrived and the day we left were the only nice days in a 10 day break), a snow, rain or sleeted out French holiday (x 3), a rained out Prague trip and a storm and rained out Italy trip but have had many many gloriously sunny holidays here in the UK.

There are very few guarantees in life, outside of taxes and death, but you can increase the odds by going further afield than another part of Europe. You'd be damned unlucky to go to the tropics and have snow or sleet unless you went mountaineering. 

If you want to go away over the festive period and don't enjoy the cold, snow, grey skies etc then the odds are better in the Caribbean than Suffolk.  However fully agree that you should be paying for your own tests.

Oh I wish but alas the pennies (or lack of) plus the handy addition of a wheelchair, puts the kibosh on going further afield without serious hassle and cost and knowing my luck, there would be a blooming hurricane anyway, hurricane season or not!

Sandtree

SingleSue said:

Sandtree said:

SingleSue said:
For the record, you don't need to go abroad to have a holiday and neither is having a holiday abroad a guarantee for nice weather, I speak from experience from a rained out Spanish holiday (the day we arrived and the day we left were the only nice days in a 10 day break), a snow, rain or sleeted out French holiday (x 3), a rained out Prague trip and a storm and rained out Italy trip but have had many many gloriously sunny holidays here in the UK.

There are very few guarantees in life, outside of taxes and death, but you can increase the odds by going further afield than another part of Europe. You'd be damned unlucky to go to the tropics and have snow or sleet unless you went mountaineering. 

If you want to go away over the festive period and don't enjoy the cold, snow, grey skies etc then the odds are better in the Caribbean than Suffolk.  However fully agree that you should be paying for your own tests.

Oh I wish but alas the pennies (or lack of) plus the handy addition of a wheelchair, puts the kibosh on going further afield without serious hassle and cost and knowing my luck, there would be a blooming hurricane anyway, hurricane season or not!

Appreciate wheelchair and health challenges can make things more difficult, thankfully for us our prescription medicines in the UK can be bought over the counter in many countries and arent prohibitively expensive so what we have can be dealt with.

Being outside the UK at the moment but normally living in London we've been fortunate to find that mid term rentals and dirt cheap food/drinks means we can be away for less monies than it is to stay at home and so our only real cost has been flights and transfers. 

But nothings guaranteed, when we went the country was on the red list, went down to not-red and just needing a lat flow and now back up to needing a PCR... its a gamble as to what it'll be when we return.

zagfles

Sandtree said:

zagfles said:

Sandtree said:

SingleSue said:
For the record, you don't need to go abroad to have a holiday and neither is having a holiday abroad a guarantee for nice weather, I speak from experience from a rained out Spanish holiday (the day we arrived and the day we left were the only nice days in a 10 day break), a snow, rain or sleeted out French holiday (x 3), a rained out Prague trip and a storm and rained out Italy trip but have had many many gloriously sunny holidays here in the UK.

There are very few guarantees in life, outside of taxes and death, but you can increase the odds by going further afield than another part of Europe. You'd be damned unlucky to go to the tropics and have snow or sleet unless you went mountaineering.

No, far worse possibilities like hurricanes or torrential rain!

Hurricanes are broadly seasonal... as to torrential rain, and having spent a fair amount of time there last year, more than half the time its torrential rain for 20-30 minutes and everything is dry again within another 30 minutes. More than hide from it the Mrs would run out into it.

You certainly can get continuous heavy rain but in our months there that was a single day even though it was during the rainy season. In normal times you probably wouldnt go during the rainy season (but then in normal times we wouldnt be able to afford that length of stay even in rainy season).

Yes weather is more predicatable, I remember in Singapore I could almost set my watch by the 20 min torrential downpour at 4pm But IMO the weather you can predict in the tropics is as bad, continuous unrelenting stifling heat. Not so bad if you're in the sea snorkelling round reefs etc but much as I love doing that, it's not what I want to do the whole time.

I think you grow to appreciate the UK weather rather than moan about it the more you travel abroad!

Sandtree

zagfles said:
I think you grow to appreciate the UK weather rather than moan about it the more you travel abroad!

Clearly I need to travel more as not there yet.