Rants and WTF are you talking about and Coronavirus!

So says the King: [URL]https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-55347021[/URL].

[QUOTE=Sirioja;2513058]My life learned me unfortunately, can change very fast: I can be killed by terrorism, crash with car, detected with cancer and die in less than 3 months, so then, I won't need money I sleep on, and as far I know, I would not have anymore pleasure when dead. Money is just to live in good way for me, I don't need anymore more, when I could make much more working more, but I just want my pleasures: skiing my spots, climbing my beloved mountains, dedicating my life to beauty, what is my pleasure with adrenaline. I let being or becoming rich to others, I don't need 3 houses, I need only 1 bed and I usually sleep better in my car, when we will all be equal under ground, when we are differen,t for life.[/QUOTE]You have fully right and are living a healthy life, I also used to do a lot of sport but by getting older I have to reduce my activity some knee problems, some shoulder. And with the pandemic am it is not the good time to get any unnecessary surgery. Being also a bit hyperactive I need always to have new projects in my life.

[QUOTE=Sirioja;2513019]In deep Dordogne, French administration created a service dedicated to British, this service would not get me service even paid with my tax, to give British allowances to stay living in France as they wish, after brexit. Of course UK, Germans, NL and Belgium also love Costa Brava, Catalunya and Baleares, for quality of life compare to their home country, same like in France and Italy. [/QUOTE]EU citizens like retiring in Spain because it is cheaper, and has good weather, but still only a one to two hour flight home to visit family.

[QUOTE=Sirioja;2513019]Arithmetic's just talk: small France and Paris are number 1 for tourism, huge US, NYC, LA, China, India can t compete. Spain and my beloved Italy are also in top 4 for tourism, with magic Roma, Venezia, Firenza, Barcelona, Cadix.[/QUOTE]France is number one for tourism, but it is worthwhile to also look deeper into the numbers. Travelling between Schengen countries is cheap, easy, and requires little time because countries are smaller and closer together, which makes it easier to generate higher tourist figures. Many Europeans travel back and forth between the same 3-4 EU countries. Someone living Frankfurt can be in Paris in about 3 hours by train. Families from Belgium and NL can get in a car and be in Disneyland Paris on the weekend. Chinese tourists who arrive in EU usually go on a group tour bus and visit ten different countries. Young backpackers from USA and Australia will also do a multi-country itinerary when they visit EU.

[QUOTE]Travellers from another of France's neighbours, Germany, made up 13 million visitors to France last year, more than any other country. However, not all these visitors are coming to see France itself.

“Because of France's position many tourists are forced to pass through the country on their way to other destinations,” explains Didier Arino, president of tourism industry specialists Protourisme. [b]“Between 15 and 20 million of the visitors who come to France are just passing through on their way to Italy or Spain.”[/b]

https://www.thelocal.fr/20190410/france-retains-crown-as-most-visited-country-on-earth.[/QUOTE]

Don't say that and don't talk about the mask who is now mandatory in public transports and don't say anything about the Lask dude who has been speaking about local lockdowns, you're going to make shooTroll very angry. And not a single word about the new limitations in restaurant (that's 4 no?), it's just a very slight adjustment of their guidelines.

[URL]https://time.com/5901352/sweden-local-lockdowns/[/URL]

I feel really bad but the guy is named Nojd and not Lask.

And as soon as he said the evil word that cannot be said, some official jumped in front of the stage to say that it was only new guidelines. Naughty Johan what did you say?

It reminds me of Evil dead when they find the Necronomicon.

[QUOTE=ExpatLover;2513147]You have fully right and are living a healthy life, I also used to do a lot of sport but by getting older I have to reduce my activity some knee problems, some shoulder. And with the pandemic am it is not the good time to get any unnecessary surgery. Being also a bit hyperactive I need always to have new projects in my life.[/QUOTE]My parents made me start ski when I was not 3 yet, I started real off slopes at 14 , when I see when I go now to ride and really wish they will open lifts to let me live my freedom and pleasure, feeling to fly. I bought a VTT bicycle in 2003 to climb like in tour de France, when I discovered Dolomiti I improved bicycle with 34/36 for more than 20% climbing, getting older but I improved so much my records, I climb only for this, I gave up 6 times in la Bonette 2802 meters high on this Summer, for bad weather on top or because I couldn't break my record, so no interest to reach the top if not for record. Of course I wish to return to break record on next Summer. Was closed with snow when I finished on October, climbing Agnel 2744 meters high topless with snow on road on last kilometer to top and 5 degrees on top when 20 at the bottom, just exceptional experience. Despite pains, sometimes hardly able to walk with blocked back or knees from shocks when skiing, when I destroyed one shoulder being ejected by skis reaction to pressure, but I need so much, my drug. Even can t ski in France, but I will put skis and shoes in car, meaning I m ready, for a better mood, when I know it won t open soon with our too many cases increasing again, but happy to see them everyday, my best friends with bicycle, I give them my life when I m among rocks or crevaces, to press and cut the ice, when I m really not interested to make friends in brothels. My passions which feed my life now.

[QUOTE=McAdonis;2513175]EU citizens like retiring in Spain because it is cheaper, and has good weather, but still only a one to two hour flight home to visit family.

France is number one for tourism, but it is worthwhile to also look deeper into the numbers. Travelling between Schengen countries is cheap, easy, and requires little time because countries are smaller and closer together, which makes it easier to generate higher tourist figures. Many Europeans travel back and forth between the same 3-4 EU countries. Someone living Frankfurt can be in Paris in about 3 hours by train. Families from Belgium and NL can get in a car and be in Disneyland Paris on the weekend. Chinese tourists who arrive in EU usually go on a group tour bus and visit ten different countries. Young backpackers from USA and Australia will also do a multi-country itinerary when they visit EU.[/QUOTE]Fortunately for our economy, many foreigners coming to visit and spending holidays. Not on 2020, but many US, Asians and Arabians coming to spend money in France. Also many coming to live or retire, not for cheap like in Spain, but for our quality of life, good foods and wines and healthcare. Just figures for being number 1 for tourism and Paris for the most visited, city of love as say girls, when Spain and Italy also in top 4, when Germany and UK are behind.

Yes, mask now in Sweden, when Germany, NL, Italy on 21, Austria on 26, Switzerland are closing. Not anymore in France since 15 December, but big risk on January. Will be complicated Winter. In France, only +65 and at risk and medical people are planned for vaccine and I think it will take almost 2021, so spreading is not finished.

[QUOTE=ExpatLover;2512955]You are right, it is also what I am doing even before the pandemic, my finances are so much better and my overall life have improved a lot, met great people, new real-estate project, new classic car I will never spend again so much money with prostitutes as before.[/QUOTE]Unless the most unlikely situation of me meeting a compatible babe who sweeps me off my feet and gets me to settle down happens I will continue to pursue this bobby. I will travel again when I can visit a country where I can sit in the park and look at beautiful girls pass by with no masks on.

[QUOTE=Turgid;2513280]Unless the most unlikely situation of me meeting a compatible babe who sweeps me off my feet and gets me to settle down happens I will continue to pursue this bobby. I will travel again when I can visit a country where I can sit in the park and look at beautiful girls pass by with no masks on.[/QUOTE]Of course I am also doing it but all the girls are not prostitutes, probably in a park there is 0 prostitutes.

Rushing for vaccine but new kind of covid found in UK. Will vaccine work versus this new? London under confine for Christmas. EU think to close from UK, when NL and Belgium already did.

[QUOTE=Sirioja;2513527]Rushing for vaccine but new kind of covid found in UK. Will vaccine work versus this new? London under confine for Christmas. EU think to close from UK, when NL and Belgium already did.[/QUOTE]Last week I wrote about this, first I will not take a RNA vaccine and second like the flue vaccine it efficiency is far less for old people or people with comorbidity and those are the first to be vaccinate. Nothing proves that the vaccine will work with the new mutant.

Now information are arriving about Chinese government lies about virus, when their doctor Li warned on last December, but politics threatened him if not stopping to tell and he died very fast, also about not reliable tests. Real danger for the world.

[QUOTE=Sirioja;2513256]Fortunately for our economy, many foreigners coming to visit and spending holidays. Not on 2020, but many US, Asians and Arabians coming to spend money in France. Also many coming to live or retire, not for cheap like in Spain, but for our quality of life, good foods and wines and healthcare. Just figures for being number 1 for tourism and Paris for the most visited, city of love as say girls, when Spain and Italy also in top 4, when Germany and UK are behind.[/QUOTE]USA made $217 billion from tourists in 2018, France made only $67 billion, and Thailand made $63 billion. Each arrival to USA spends an average of $2694, in Thailand $1644, and in France only $753. Probably a third of France's tourist arrivals stay for only 1-2 days. Why? Because you have so many countries within driving distance and open borders. In one weekend, how many times do you cross a border? In most other places in the world the type of country hopping you do every weekend is not so easy and not so cheap. People who go to Australia spend the most money, $4891 per arrival. Why? Because Australia is far and if you fly that far, you will probably stay longer. And the only other country you can really hop to from Australia is New Zealand. So yes France is number 1 in tourist arrivals, Spain is number 2. But the full story, if you choose to look deeper, is USA makes three times more money from tourism than France: [URL]https://www.visualcapitalist.com/map-countries-by-tourist-spending/[/URL].

[QUOTE=McAdonis;2513695]USA made $217 billion from tourists in 2018, France made only $67 billion, and Thailand made $63 billion. Each arrival to USA spends an average of $2694, in Thailand $1644, and in France only $753. Probably a third of France's tourist arrivals stay for only 1-2 days. Why? Because you have so many countries within driving distance and open borders. In one weekend, how many times do you cross a border? In most other places in the world the type of country hopping you do every[/QUOTE]LOL, you're asking certain people to look deeper against their cemented beliefs. Has 2020 taught us nothing? Haha.

Every time I arrive in Charles De Galle Airport, I spend my 3 euro for a coffee and croissant and try to get the fuck out of France as quickly as possible. The feelings of snobbery when anywhere near Paris is just, well, icky.