Off Topic Holidays

Tell you what I had forgot to do until today was what I use to know as E111 - My EU one had expired in June 2021. Although last time I had emergency care abroad they stuck me straight in private anyway through the travel insurance.

 

I'm off to the isle of man for a week end of July for a cousins wedding if that counts as a holiday.

Got some fishing on my uncle's boat planned.

Probably just get drunk the rest of the time cos theres **** all there to go see.

 

I had forgotten about that .

will try and remember to check tomorrow . Thanks for the reminder !

 

Takes literally no more than 5 mins to send off online, just make sure you have your NI number to hand and it's free.

 

£50 per person for a PCR test. £200 for 4 of us. Fck off!

Going away next week so decided to pay £20 for 24 hr AIDS test instead, which is a piss-take as well.

I didn't have a booster so apparently not fully vaccinated

 

Where u off to bro?

I should probably check if I need to pay for any **** like this before I go away

 

Naah I'm good no proof of vaccination needed.

 

Off to Spain. Little trek from Alhambra to Barcelona.

Check up on De Jong, call him a **** while I'm at it

Defo look into it. The PCR test has to be done within 72 hours so it's a tight timeframe and they're just ripping you off imo. £49 is the cheapest I can find.

The antigen test is within 24 hours of arriving at destination so decided to do that. Fingers crossed no one's positive

 

Where are you off to?

 

Is that a supervised LFT on a video call?

 

No going to a centre to have it done the afternoon before we fly. You get the results by email in 2 hours. £20 each.

 

We did a video call test with project screen a couple of months ago. Really easy tbf. Got the results within an hour.
I’d STRONGLY recommend you do it by video call if you can mate. Leaves a lot more room for manoeuvre if you get me?

 

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I didn't even see that as an option tbh. I'll have another look, any links?

 

https://www.projectscreen.co.uk/?gc...3jhhVv5acyQDpruilx0iGV6aDbGx7sc4aAlOnEALw_wcB

They just send you a zoom link. When it’s time for your test, just click the link and they guide you through it step by step.
They watch you take the test etc, then the call ends, and you upload your results.

 

Got back from Spain 2 weeks ago and they didn’t ask for anything when we landed. Had some people giving out vaccines when you walked through customs but that was it

 

Just had a quick look. Doesn’t look like you need to do an observed test for Spain.
LFT at home. Happy days

 

Serious? This aint a wind up. We get there and end up in quarantine for 2 weeks?

You read that Spanish site with all the registration and form filling per person and it looks extreme tbh.

 

Mate I've been on it for days and I'm sure you need the PCR or antigen test?

 

Antigen is lateral flow mate.

 

I was fine as had my last vaccine within the last 270 days time period so had the covid passport on my phone but nobody was checking when we arrived. Just walked through and showed passport like pre Covid days.

This was the 6am Friday flight to Alicante though so maybe they couldn’t be arsed with the hassle of people telling them to **** off