Our youngest is a member of a local ‘triathlete’ club and they’ve been told to have no more than six in a group.
Depends who you are stopped by - if you are stopped at all that is. Some gendarmes will not go into details and if you say you live in X (x being roughly with range) they will accept. Others will plug your postcode in to be precise.
During first confinement a couple of local gendarmes got a very bad reputation for mean’ness .
Yes, 6 is what people are meant to do but of the four clubs I know here, we all applied that the first time round and then it’s just been ignored (including by gendarmes and polices who are amongst the cyclists I know).
Edit : we all know it’s 6 max, all the clubs and fédérations have sent the messages out too (done their bit) but with time everybody’s been ignoring it.
The six person rule has been extrordinary - I have been spending up to 8 hours a day in a normal-sized classroom with 30 young adults and that is all fine, then later the same day conseil de class and we are in a much bigger room but only 6 people are allowed. Cherchez l’erreur…
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We do impose the “un client par 8m2 max” rule in the shop, at our club AG we were all sat 3m apart, quiet and masked but the following morning there were 13 of us grouped together for a 3 hour ride puffing away (obviously not masked on the bike)… comme tu dis ; cherchez l’erreur ! Mais je suis coupable comme mes potes !
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Our friend with the warty pseudonym has gone quiet.
I’m tempted to say
But I wonder if (s)he1 would be brave enough to stand and make the claim (s)he is happy and proud to have left the EU in front of a room full of shellfishermen, or small business owners, or musicians/roadcrew, or Brits facing expulsion from Spain under Schengen rules, or Brits in France stuck without driving licences, or financiers whose jobs have moved from the square mile to Frankfurt and who cannot follow them due to lack of FoM, or truckers trying to get goods to and from Northern Ireland, or students locked out of Erasmus, or people being charged exorbitant import duty and processing fees for sending family Christmas presents, or … well, need I go on?
Edit: 1] in all fairness we don't know whether Toad is male or female hence the slight edit. I'll put my money on Mars ♂ though.
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if you are near a border in one department you have up to 30km radius you can be in, in an adjacent department.
Picking up pre-ordered goods has been added in the last 2 rounds as being the same as shopping for essentials.
FWIW I am not going to bother measuring distances. For my few occasions out I’ll be doing an attestation and carrying it anyway along with something that proves my address.
Thanks for the clarification, it’s not brilliantly worded on the service-public.fr site.
Just like the “stay locally” injunction in the UK (up to 29th March), it’s also a bit vague, you could interpret “résidant aux frontières des départements concernés” in various ways.
I’ve just googled this 30kms rule and found this:
Let’s hope that this rule isn’t enforced too rigidly.
and unless you complete your registration as required by @cat, you’ll be happy to leave SF as well before too long 
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I think people don’t use their real names so they can be unpleasant anonymously. They don’t have the balls to be unpleasant using their real names in case they are found out. Cowardly custards!!!
Izzy x
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Thanks, I’ve just done this. Now for what is probably a very silly question - I see the default option is to generate a QR code, can I therefore assume that any policeman at a checkpoint will have a QR reader?
yes 
I take things are much the same as the last lockdown, if I have ordered stuff from Leroy Merlin which is 30km from me I can use the attestation to pick the stuff up.
Ta very much 
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We had the Maquis round here in force (Languedoc) and a couple of years ago I had a French chap coaching my language. One day as an exercise he brought in for me to read his grandfather’s diary, detailing his daily life as a resistance fighter.
It was fascinating, not just for the details, but for the terse, matter-of-fact reporting: “avril 5 truck blown up near Faugeres, 14 Germans killed”, “ mai 2 supply convoy attacked at Gabian crossroads, 12 Germans killed 7 wounded, we lost 3 including Pierre M” etc
It was quite chilling reading about this man’s exploits in such everyday language.
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Wow. That must be quite a read.
Yes, and of course a great privilege that he shared it with me.
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Yes, TousAntiCovid is marvellous at that. I use it a lot.
Hi Annajayne,
You can use this tool to calculate the 10km distance that is authorised. If you are are going outside that zone, you will need an attestation.
Mappy vous permet de calculer et visualiser un rayon autour d’une adresse sur la carte (autour de moi ou autre). https://covid.mappy.com/
Just pop your town or village in the search bar and click valider.
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