Quote Originally Posted by jon1959 View Post
I’m in southern Italy now. Here for 11 nights on a long-planned ‘special’ holiday for my partner’s 60th. Italy was way down on the infections table so we decided not to cancel and come despite some nervousness about the flights and the risk of quarantine if the status changed dramatically whilst we were in the country.

From my experience of several parts of the UK in recent months the Italians are much more likely to wear masks, check temperatures at every shop or restaurant and socially distance. It isn’t perfect and foreign tourists are less likely to behave, but the general level of compliance and responsibility is much higher than the UK.

I have only seen Naples, Amalfi and parts of Puglia - the north was worse hit in March to May - but they seem to take Covid more seriously than us. They also had a proper lock down with none of the fudge and contradictory waffle offered up by Johnson.

We feel very safe. The only areas of concern are the flights - all full and with variable levels of effective mask wearing with mouth and/or nose covering a matter of personal choice!
Sounds ok but are they having the same rise in cases as Spain, France and the UK? And if not, how come?