Condor ferry Credit: ITV Channel TV
Public Health Guernsey has been helping dozens of people trying to get to France for Christmas, after international rule changes threatened their plans.
Nearly 40 people were booked onto Condor Ferries last sailing from Guernsey to St Malo this morning, but new border restrictions by French authorities yesterday nearly meant their journey could not go ahead.
They said that the test we d had wasn t actually on the French recognised list and that if we wanted to travel we d have to get another one. When I saw the guy in the car in front of me and he was shaking his head, I thought that s it ,we re not going, you know they re turning us away and then of course the next boat is the 28th so then it was just one mad dash.