Am I right to go on holiday?

red_harrington

red_harrington

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My family has a week booked in a cottage in the Lake District in early April to go walking in the hills. The cottage is on its own, middle of nowhere, not in a village.

We're due to drive there, go walking in remote areas (ie not Helvellyn, Old Man etc etc), and come home again.

We'll take all our food with us - no pubs, no shopping, no trips into town.

The only contact we can possibly have with anyone else would be other walkers that we may come across. We can even give them a wide berth if necessary.

OK or selfish & irresponsible?
 
The issue is that you may already be carrying covid-19 and if you required hospital treatment you'd be using their hospital spaces. If everyone continued with their holiday plans then they'd be overwhelmed. I think you have to view yourself as one of many, and no one should see themselves as an exception.
 
It looks like all new bookings are going to be stopped and all existing bookings in the Lakes will be cancelled. That was on lunchtime Look North.
 
My wife's sister is a nurse at Keswick hospital and they are furious about the "idiots turning up in the Lakes".
 
Yes - on balance a ‘no’ red
We’ve got the same at the end of the month. A cottage booked in Norfolk. Quiet, rural but - too risky.
 
I have to agree with other posters, stay at home, please

we've had to pie even the idea of going away at the end of April off for our 10th wedding anniversary. We actually didn't get as far as booking anything because Venice was first choice, but that obviously couldn't happen, so we thought we'd have a few days in London, but that's off the cards too. So it'll be postponed and we'll stay at home. Without wanting to sound overly dramatic, we'd rather miss our 10th anniversary to ensure we are actually around for the 11th, notwithstanding us driving each other completely up the wall during this period of isolation of course!
 
Definitely stay at home. We had a similar holiday planned for October in Orkney, and the owner of the cottage has cancelled all bookings for the year. I suspect you'll have the same result soon.
 
It just seems like this is moving so quickly and now it's knocking on the door it has become very real. It was only a week or so ago people were thinking that holidays in April would be unlikely but pretty confident summer holidays would be ok. There's got to be a question mark over any holidays for the rest of the year now.
 
We've cancelled our Easter break in Whitby. We could have gone I suppose but nothing will be open and I suspect we would quite rightly feel the wrath of the local population. Life's on hold for 12 months is my view so we'll pick it back up next year God willing.
 
HundredRoom said:
Not sure I'd like to go into a house where a family of 4 had just vacated. Or sleep in a bed.
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It's a good point.

We would of course have left to come home immediately if any of us developed a cough.

Maybe the decision will be taken for us, things seem to be changing on a daily basis.
 
red_harrington said:
It's a good point.

We would of course have left to come home immediately if any of us developed a cough.

Maybe the decision will be taken for us, things seem to be changing on a daily basis.
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As above you will be met with hostility anyway as they simply don’t want or need you at this time, stay at home.
 
zorro_mfc said:
As above you will be met with hostility anyway as they simply don’t want or need you at this time, stay at home.
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You're absolutely right - except that we don't intend to meet anybody, nobody at all.

It's very much an asocial holiday, that's the way we like it, we've done it like this many times before
 
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