Don't book a holiday in Portugal this year

[JanB]

The beaches are closed until September

This is, mostly, to stop the school children and people living in cities from using them.

[TheOstrich]

Oh dear, Jan …..

Doesn't look like we're going to get to Bournemouth either, somehow!

[saundra]

What a disaster for people who rely on tourism for a living
Stay safe

[JanB]

I have to say that the Portuguese government have been a bit on the ball.

In saying that, I have a Portuguese friend who hates them

[Workingman]

I'm sorry, but what else can we do?

We either shut ourselves off so that it cannot infect us or anyone else and it dies out naturally. Or we keep on and it infects so many of us till we are all infected (herd immunity) and survive, or die, so that it has nowhere else to go.

I'll accept the shut downs and restrictions in order to come out the other side rather than risk infection in a free-for-all and die. I am happy to do so.

We are going to have to strengthen our mental, as well as our physical health, in order to get through this. Like it or not we are going to have to accentuate the positives, and there are many, and minimise the negatives.

In the near past family and friends, cousins, aunts and uncles, mums and dads, brothers and sisters all lived miles away and died from all sorts of things. It was life and we accepted it. Covid - 19 has not changed that.

[Suff]

True WM, but whilst life is a game of chance the older you get, it is far from playing Russian Roulette each time you go out for the vast majority of us.

I must admit that, for me, a few months peace seems like heaven. But then I was never bothered with either small or open spaces and don't need a lot of interaction to live my life.

To listen to the news it would seem like every prisoner would go mad in the first month. Clearly this doesn't happen so it is a matter, in the vast number of cases, of expectations rather than actual health.

People are adaptable, but they will never adapt if they keep resisting.

Of course there are others who cannot abide small spaces, but they are far from the majority.

I guess we will just have to suck it and see for another few weeks. The shops, here, are slowly returning to a semblance of normal. Including our DIY stores. France never really got into online shopping so they are having to work around how they accept customers to the stores.

Still, everyone should stay safe.

[JanB]

When the schools were closed last month, all the school children just headed to the beaches, hence they are now closed. And patrolled.

It doesn't bother us being at home, but I think if we still lived in Fuzeta, it would be a different matter.

[cromwell]

There is a woman down our road in her 70's who refuses to stay in. Most days she is out, taking the bus to Wakefield. She had a stroke last year and she can't walk fast, bt she just won't stay in.
On the TV in the UK there is a program on called Escape to the Chateau DIY, which follows to doings of Brits abroad in France who have bought old Chateaux (?) and are doing them up, to run them as gites, b and b's and wedding venues. You do wonder how badly the lockdown is going to affect them.
As Saundra says, it's bad times for people who make their living out of the holiday / hospitality business.

[saundra]

Crommers I always watch that program it will hit.uk holiday industry hard as it will all over the world
Us oldies will rebel if we can't see family and grandchildren this lockdown continues for many more months sorry if it's of topic jan

[cromwell]

Saundra, Eliza wanted to run to MrsC the other day to be picked up, but she couldn't be. It did upset MrsC.