Just reporting 2 specific instances Of British nationals entering France and Spain, this weekdaveuprite wrote:It's not a case of myth or not. It's a case of how the regs are implemented, or not. Obviously there's no border checks between Schengen EU countries so you wouldn't expect anything at the Portuguese/Spanish border. During the current covid crisis that could be different obviously depending on how the local police each side are checking for vaccinations/quarantine etc.
At the EU/non-EU border (e.g. France/UK) there is the right to check everything and the right to implement every regulation that applies to TCNs and goods from outside the EU - but that doesn't mean that they are always implemented. There's staffing and time resources to consider (brexit is costing EU neighbours a lot of money). But that doesn't make the whole issue a myth. It just means that those who say 'nothing happened to me when I went through' just got lucky that they weren't checked on that occasion.
Of course there might be a re-negotiation of the botched deal done last December which hopefully tackles what should have been sorted out back then. Let's wait and see.
One with road registered racing bikes in a van, entering France and no extra hassle
Another were bike riders on the their bikes entering Spain and having no hassles re Covid regulations in entry and exit to Schengen territory
Nothing seems to have changed much
British press are reporting travel hassles, which don’t seem to be actual reality according to the real life experience of travellers this last week