Self isolating aboard my boat in Italy

puchanix

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I am thinking about traveling to Italy to use my boat. The Italian consulate is telling me if I stay more than 120 hours I need to self-isolate for 14 days. I could self solate that aboard my boat, but it is not clear to me if I would have to stay in the marina, or if I would be able to go cruise around as long as I don't disembark anywhere. Or, even if I can go on a paddleboard or would have to stay within the confines of my boat. Anybody here has information or experience about this?

Thank you!

P.
 
We enquired about this.

Officially no, you need to remain on board and cannot leave the marina. Any new marina you travel to will (should...) ask where you've been in the last 14 days. They would also deliver food to the boat.

At some point in the next month I need to go from Italy to Tunisia and back to Italy again. From Cagliari we can do this in the same day (Cagliari - Bizerte - Cagliari in 18 hours or so ) and even for that, we have to quarantine on return to Cagliari. They're taking it pretty seriously over here.
 
It depends where you come from. And also where you are going. For example anyone coming to Sicily from say Greece has to isolate but if you go to the mainland you do not. From the UK there is no quarantine unless I missed something. I met an Aussie in Licati in Sicily who had returned from Oz to his boat and he had to quarantine. Not allowed off his boat and someone called him every day. I should add that I was on the dock and he was on his boat ! He said he took the view that traveling outside the marina on his boat was not in the spirit of the quarantine so he was chilling on day 10. I have been here one month and my observation is that people are replaced in general. The normal cheek kissing greetings remain - I see people remove their masks to do this - and there are lots of people around, mainly Italian staycationers. Last night we were moored next to two boats traveling together full of lung and cardiac transplant specialists from Padua. Some very interesting insights
 
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