IN THESE DAYS OF Covid-19 any type of international travel requires a lot of planning, and worrying, to ensure you have completed all the documents, tests and online forms needed. Recently I, Alex, and our daughter went to Paris for a 5 day visit to the various art galleries. A trip we had been looking forward to for several months, hopefully this account will help any of you planning a trip from Cyprus.

Please bear in mind all the rules and regulations change frequently so do check on the relevant government websites for the prevailing rules for your dates of travel.

Also bear in mind that most of my article is text. I have broken it up and added some pictures we took along the way, but the pictures won't necessarily match the text. The title above each picture relates to the picture, not the text.

We are permanent Cyprus residents with United Kingdom passports and were travelling to Paris, France. I have had 3 vaccine doses and our daughter has had 2.

I visited both the EU and the French government sites for information on travel requirements. As residents of an EU country travelling to France and both fully vaccinated NO Covid test was required, however, we decided to have a rapid antigen test 24 hours before flying for safety’s sake. We had this done in Paphos on the Sunday and received a text of our negative results a few hours later. France requires a passenger locator form to be completed online EU Digital Passenger Locator Form (dPLF)) and a declaration that you have not been in contact with a Covid case in the last 7 days, on paper. The PLF was uploaded to Ryan Air the day before travel and downloaded to my mobile phone.

When we arrived at Paphos airport it was very quiet, and we quickly moved through the gates, security and passport control. I had our yellow slips with us, and the passports were NOT stamped on leaving. The flight itself was half full so there were lots of empty seats and we had a row of 3 to ourselves. The staff were amazing, and the flight went without incident.