In La Baule, Europe 1 met a couple of grandparents who are seeing their grandchildren for the first time since this summer.
But in the midst of the Covid-19 epidemic resumption, health protection measures have turned their reunion upside down.
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These All Saints holidays have a new flavor, that of the Covid.
In the seaside resort of La Baule, in Loire-Atlantique, dozens of grandparents are deprived of their grandchildren this year.
And for those who have accepted the principle of reunion, they often come with many precautions.
Meals taken in turn, careful multiplication of barrier gestures ... Some families go even further and refuse to have grandchildren and grandparents sleep under the same roof, to avoid putting seniors at any risk.
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At Jacqueline and Michel, it is the son who set up the holiday arrangements.
Thus, the three grandchildren and their parents will not spend the night with the grandparents.
"They are not staying with us. They rented. This is the first time they have done this," explains Jacqueline.
"They don't eat at home either. We meet on the beach. It's less fun, the children are disturbed. If they come to the house, we wear the mask. […] Everyone plays the game! ”she says.
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"We have no right to make mistakes"
The grandchildren come from Paris, they have been waiting for this reunion for two months, but they do not have the usual cuddly flavor: "We are 75 years old, we are one of the people at risk, so we are not allowed to the error, ”notes Grandfather Michel.
"It's hard. We can't touch each other, we have no proximity. But if we have to go through there to see them […] It's better than nothing!"
For his part, Jules, 5, dreams of a Christmas "without a mask and full of kisses".