Fly me to the Moon - your 3rd travel Megathread - read OP

Also interested. As I've booked them for the kids on Friday.

Edit: Thanks to the previous poster for the update

I wonder if Ireland going red will impact our ability to enter any countries, including non-EU ones.

Looking at the Delta outbreak in Sydney and now developing across Australia we are very fortunate to be at the level (and continuing) of vaccination we are, had we have been in the current situation Australia finds itself with a more transmissible variant with previous lockdown methods not working and very low levels of inoculation with the wrong vaccine bets, and us with an open border - It boggles the mind where we would be going or what we would be doing in our country right now.

Off tomorrow on two-week trip to Greece involving 3 Islands, Lisbon booked for a weekend in late Sep, LA for a week in early Nov and hoping to do a Christmas market in Dec either in Austria or Germany. Not half optimistic. 😂

And there goes Eilish again banging her anti travel gong.

No breakdown whatsoever on those numbers. Considering we're not doing any random testing at the airport, how many of these 'travel related' cases happen weeks or months after the travel has occurred. Also weird how vaccinated people seem to become more vulnerable to infection as soon as they go overseas.

More awful propaganda for ISAG masquerading as journalism.

I've noticed that masks are being worn outdoors in Spain by the vast majority of locals in crowded areas like city centres. Most of the people not wearing them seem to be tourists. I think the rule is they are supposed to be worn if you can't guarantee 1.5 metres distance but there does not seem to be any enforcement of that rule.

Another thing, I asked a few weeks ago what do I do with my driving license (abroad) that was supposed to expire a couple of months ago but whose validity was automatically extended. The NDLS finally got back to me and they will provide anyone in that situation with a "Driver Statement" which I presume is an official looking letter explaining the situation. As it happens, I didn't need it for car hire, but if I was stopped by the police, I'd definitely want to have it.

It's exactly this. Gearing up for some 'emergency brake' bollix.

Fortunately, there's a good chance that a few countries including the UK seem to be peaking delta wave and it's lower than what the scaremongers anticipated. The next week or so will tell for sure, but undoubtedly the focus then won't be on the UK or other countries coming out of the delta blip, it will be on our rising numbers due to travel and reopening indoor dining.

That's the whole point of phrasing it like that, but I'd really doubt that figure. Greece looked at a sample 100,000 random tests at the airports and found just 76 positives. How many people have come through our have airports in the last two weeks? Remember, these are all either vaccinated or PCRd. There would have to be close to a million to get the same results. I bet these figure are for anyone that's been near the airport this year and was infected weeks after.

There is definetly a push from NPHET that the media are only too happy to row in behind in terms of foreign travel, particularly for unvaccinated. I'd have serious doubts that 800 people who would have tested negative on a PCR less than 3 days before flying subsequently testing positive a few days after returning. It would also be interesting how many on that period went for the day 5 PCR test to end quarentine. If for example 40,000 went for that test and 800 tested positive that would be a 2% positivity rate. If you took a random selection of unvaccinated people in the country and tested them in the same period you'd probably get a similar positivity rate. But as usual they give us half facts to support the narritive they want. I'm going to take it with a huge pinch a salt as I do with all their facts and figures (such as hospitalisations) until we get the full facts of the situation.