Cheers.
Think our postie is having us on then.

EW,
I would definitely recommend Restaurant Entrecôte. We discovered this restaurant in Bordeaux when youngest son and I went down to the international match in Agen. Mrs B and I have had holidays for 2 months every year since 2008 in Arcachon and make a point of going the 70kms to Bordeaux every other week just to have steak frites. There is no menu, just rare, medium or bien cuit. As the website says they don't take reservations and it is the only restaurant I have ever know the French to queue. Large quantity of steak and absurd amounts of frites.
Absolutely superb and very reasonably priced. Cannot recommend it too highly unless you are a vegetarian in which case good luck in finding a French vegetarian restaurant.

Just looking on the Toulouse Olympique website and loved this description in their preview of the match on Saturday describing Wigan as "cette équipe emblématique" - this iconic club.

However they also named our colours as being 'blanc et grenat', i.e. white and garnet !

Has anyone filled in an EU Passenger Locator Form to get into France?

Got my vaccine certs printed and Sworn Declaration form completed. I thought that would be it but now just seen this on one of my emails from the airline.

I'm aware we need to fill in a UK PLF to get back home but didn't think we had to going over there.

Tbf, 'cerise' (cherry) seems to mean a much paler, pinkish tone in France, so maybe they were closer to the spirit of it.

I think you only need the sworn statement and your vaccination certificate . The EU locator form is very easy to fill in and submit so we did it just in case . You get a QR code by return just as you do with the UK one . We fly out Thursday lunchtime so if we have any problems I will post on here . I think the confusion happened as the rules changed early February and people are reading rules that haven't been updated

EW

So jealous of you fellow fans going to France,I am busy at work.One day I will go,only went when we played at Barcelona,had a good chat with Waney then.

Anyhow have a great time,

Looks like everyone (who isn’t injured) is available for the game going off the squad named, so the vaccine uptake must be exceptional and that’s pleasing.

I’d give Miski, Smith and O’Neill a crack this week I think.

Field
Miski Pearce-Paul Hardaker Marshall
Cust Smith
Singleton Powell Ellis
Bateman Farrell Smithies

Subs
Mago Isa Byrne O’Neill

A refresher for Leuluai to get ready for a big game at Catalans next week and just opportunities for Miski and O’Neill for strong pre seasons in place of Bibby and Partington. It’ll be a long ten days for some of those lads if they don’t have a game to get involved in. I’d look to give Shorrocks and Partington a go next week from the bench and bring Bibby and Tommy back in.

It’ll be a chance for Harry Smith and Abbas Miski IMO. I think you’ll see Isa, Bibby and Tommy rested.

Field
Miski
Hardaker
KPP
Marshall
Cust
Smith
Singleton
Powell
Ellis
Faz
Bateman
Smithies

Mago
O’Neill
Byrne
Shorrocks

Arrived in Toulouse no check on documents carried out except passports

EW

All forms filled out. What a palava

Travelled to France today on the tunnel, I'd uploaded my Vax cert and declaration thing in advance, they looked at none of it today. Zero issues.

Never did get our match tickets through the post, whilst the stadium advised our names would be on a 'dupes list' in Toulouse we werent gonna risk it in another country so we purchased an additional two tickets in person this afternoon.

Some pubs asking for vaccination certificates. Thirsty Monk one of them .

EW

Are they accepting the ones of the NHS app or do they need to be done in the French app?