Judith-aka-Judith
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Anybody know how soon before you cross the frontier (medical reasons) you need a PCR test?? Due to go back to dentist in Spain on Friday to finish work half way through ..
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Pleased you got your jab, NormanH, nothing available here .. my sister gets hers in the UK tomorrow!
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Mint,I feel for you .. yes, Likewise, I have spent more time in various medical establishments and public transports thann I would have liked in the last 2 weeks .. not worrying, as it is not too bad around here (I think !), but I do get annoyed by the masks worn wrongly!I expect that our small local centre will be the last to get more ..
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Mint, we think alike! No matter which country, I am now beginning to wonder if ANYONE knows what they are doing! Shambles. Though for the first time in several years, the UK do seem to have pretty well got their act together on vaccinations .. and made it easy .. invite from your GP .. ONLY - sister got hers and will be going on Sunday, which means in her area (Cambridgeshire) they've done the over 80's now!France in comparison .. seems we are the same age, as she is , why we wait .. and hope!
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That makes sense, Woolly ... I was of course, being polite last time .. and I reckon the author or the editor was definitely male!!
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I know those magazines are now quite dated, but it strikes me as somewhat condescending to women, even for those days. Interesting reading though!
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Used to have a similar problem to Lori's .. only ours was the local vigneron .. at vendange time .. when we bought why did we not realise that his tractor was stored in the barn across from us and that the only way he could get to his fields was right past our bedroom window. But we just accepted it was for a short, and limited time and lived with it!We've moved now, so not the same problem, just early market arrivals once a week!
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Woolly,You have certainly described some of my experiences too, from tourist, to resident, to ?????What I think is clear from posts on here, plus how life here has gone .. is that all life experiences are useful, but that we should never assume that what happened in the past will happen in the future. Brexit alone should tell us that.And I do think that however we move on, it is no sin to decide that no matter how much you "enjoy" whatever your life in France has been, when it is time to move on, back to the UK or whatever, we should accept that life changes constantly. Our experience alone should tell us that each to their own, but strangely it does not seem to work like that.I too would love to hear more, when you feel the inspiration come on you, Woolly!
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But you can bet your bottom dollar that if you did not have the papers, they would decide to be difficult. Not worth risking, I'd say.
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I think that since we did finally leave the EU (sob, sob) on 31/12/2020, Manon's experience relates to the previous EU law which we were still operating under till then. For myself, I'd change it, loosing 6 months of a passport validity is better than being turned back, or not allowed to travel at all (that is whenever we might be able to do so again safely!).
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I went straight to Doctolib as there is a centre listed in our village (yippee - I can even walk to it), and did an experimental try - I'm techinically not the right age group - yet - and though being treated for cancer it is not chemo, so more in the line of research for now. Will check with my GP who I will see towards the end of the month, and then see how it goes .. it does seem rather to depend on where you are ..
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[quote user="NormanH"]If you look that address up on Street View you will see what I mean..[/quote]Absolutely, Norman, sure I've walked past that before now!!
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As far as I am aware, for those with an existing 10yr CdS, it will be a straight swop, one visit to prefec or sous-prefec as allowed by choice (I was able to chose where when I filled my application in in mid Oct 2020, and I got the receipt as copied abover including the attestation).It says that photos, passports etc be taken, nothing else. It implies that new fingerprints will be taken.For 5 yrs and less, my understanding is that other proofs will be required, but it will not be as arduous as obtaining a CdS before.As for absences, for 10 yr card holders, I believe up to 5 yrs is allowed, for others only 2yrs at most, but this is from memory and not actual knowledge.
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I applied on 13 Nov for both of us. I already had an EHIC, I do the bulk of the travelling, or did, in our family, and my replacement arrived yesterday. As you say, 5 yrs, UK imposed etc .. no idea when hubby's will come, I don't think he had one before, though his S1 is definitely registered, no doubt it will come in due course. As none of us can really travel at the moment, doesn't sem to be too much to worry about ..
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Interesting coincidence. Had that on a e-card just yesterday! Makes a very pleasant change from the scottish song. And exaclty the sentiment that is required after such a year as we have all had.
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[quote user="mint"]There is now growing dissent within France, not least among medical personnel, about the slowness of the rollout.It's a poor excuse to say the scepticism of the French people is slowing down the process. Just get started with vaccinating people and when the sceptics see that people are not dropping down dead after the jab and they themselves start getting ill or their family and friends start dying, they MIGHT get convinced? Ggggrrrr........I am getting really irritated by so-called explanations that make no sense and doctors and nurses are becoming exhausted and the population getting fed up and some are beginning to flout all the rules[:'(][/quote]Exactly what I said late last night Mint .. just get on with it .. what poor logicians the French are turning out to be, as well as pessimists par exellence.
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Mint, I quite take your last point .. if there is reluctance, well give it to those who want it, and the health care staff .. and then when it is shown to be OK, maybe they will convert a few more. I'd be ready to have one .. but you know the French, the system (or whatever they call it, to late now) has to maintained .. if you can keep your head etc comes to mind, but it seems they are not ..
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As you so correctly say, but they forgot the other point you made about altitude ...
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Indeed, snow fell in Le Caylar on Christmas Day, and that's not that high, and only at the start of the plateau from down here.
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I did say it would be all over Europe soon enough, in one of my earlier posts on one of these threads ... already in Germany ... OH is of the opinion that the mutant strain arrived with someone travelling - it uses humans as its vector - so just stop everyone travelling he said. But still they do and still expect to control it .. somehow!
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Since reports that most European countries have had a resurgence of the virus, and that it is gaining pace, it would seem that the new mutant has indeed arrived in front of the news of its arrival!
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Idun, well if you can move and replant vines, as we did with one of ours, and yes, it survived and is now a good one again ..I see no reason why not with trees, as long as they still have their roots ... though here at least and also I saw in Westminster before we left, they do shred the trees, of all sorts, and it comes out as sawdust, which I presume is used for building materials, insulation etc. But the recycling to grow again is an even better idea .. if feasible.
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[quote user="mint"]Judith, don't you admire how the medical people in France work till Christmas Eve and then restart Boxing Day? They even do that in the big hospitals and clinics.The year I was having radiotherapy, I had an appointment on the 26th to have my tattoos and the treatment started a day or two later.BTW, are you doing OK with your treatment? I will get round to emailing or PMing you er.....after Christmas is all over[:D][/quote]Hi Mint, was replying earlier, then I had to go to the nurse to remove stitches after another "petite intervention" 2 weeks ago, much more comfortable now .. doing OK, but it's been over 6 months now, and no end in sight - yet! Works more slowly than chemo or radio .. but there we are .. just my luck, but it was such a dark morning today (I nearly said mucky, but only northerners would know what I mean by that!) and I saw that we have lights in the village, and some kind of deco on the roundabout as you arrive .. more tasteful then last year (new maire), but as Lori said, in blue .. not very festive!The fact the France doesn't as such close down at Christmas always surprises me .. we arrived here one year, before we lived here, on holiday, to Carcassonne (though as we now say Carca) for Christmas travelling though snow and ice .. and a shunt, and so to find the local Volvo franchise on Christmas Eve. Car was driveable, but had lost a head light and had an interestingly shaped bumper, so we thought it better to mend rather than spend the hols without ... come back on 26th and I can do it he said .. and he did. Now THAT would never have happened in the UK. That was a holiday and half .. starter motor packed up on the way back, in the New Year, in Figeac .. come back tomorrow, I can mend it then ...and once again - he did! Memories are definitely made of this!
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Likewise, Mint, how can it be Christmas a week tomorrow? Mind you apart from Christmas trees around (in the Doctor's surgery this morninging for example) I've seen no other decorations, not that I've been out much .. only medical stuff has been dogging my steps .. though I did go do a good pre-Christmas shop of those things I can buy in good time .. cakes etc . stollen .. which won't go off .. but we shall be on our own, having had to cancel our planned Christmas break in Spain (border will be as such not be open to tourists at that time!) so I've even lost that impetus now. Weird year indeed!
Has anyone managed to connect to sante.fr today?
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