Lockdown #3

[Steve]

Brian was asking in the newsletter what we thought about Macron's speech last night, so I thought I would get you all started.

First off the restrictions haven't bothered us a lot as we tend to keep ourselves to ourselves, so I doubt this one will be any different for us apart from a few things I think are just stupid.

#1 You can't go into a neighbouring department, I find this so annoying as we are close to the border of 87 and Mrs Fred sometimes pops down to Bellac for a change to stock up but now she has no choice but to go to Montmorillon.

#1 I believe is not quite accurate, you can go 30km into a neighbouring département IF you are considered to be living on the "frontières" as they call it - but I've not seen how close to the border you have to be.

"Pour les personnes résidant aux frontières des départements concernés, il est admis que ces autorisations valent aussi dans un rayon de 30 km autour de leur lieu de résidence", précise le ministère de l'Intérieur.

https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/societe/...1617227145