It's been quite something with this corona virus! We had planned a lot for 2020, but had to cancel most of it. Luckily we could do our main trip to South Africa, just before the outbreak of corona. And the last weekend before the first lockdown we attended a concert of Ball & Boe in the London O2 Arena, with 20,000 spectators.
The rest of the trips fell into the water. And then we thought of 2021. We planned a trip to Morocco for Easter, but already cancelled it too because the situation right now is still pretty bad and it doesn't look we'll go back to normal before summer.
So once more, a change in plans. At the moment we begin scheduling our trips from summer 2021 onwards. We may hope to be vaccinated by then, and the same it will be for most European countries. By the end of the year, all the population will have got its vaccination. We have booked hotels in France for the beginning of July - a few days in Paris and some more in Bordeaux.
In August we have tickets for a musical in London - it normally should have been in August '20 but it was postponed. It looks like Ithis may be possible too. So a few days London mid August.
Then in October another concert in Birmingham - also a postponed one. It's on a Friday, but that's no problem because Chris can arrange her work and take a day off if she wants. We'd leave on Thursday night, head to London, and from there take the train to Birmingham.
At the end of October we have planned a week in Dubai. We got a great deal on the price of the hotel, and also the airline tickets are much cheaper than usual! We'll fly Emirates.
And at the end of the year, we'll go to Mexico and Canada. This trip would originally take place in July, but we moved it to December because that will be safer. At the moment you can't enter Canada without going into quarantine.
And because we're hopeless optimists, we're already thinkin ahead of 2022! A trip to Japan would be nice, and we also think of Morocco and Lebanon.
Let's hope we don't have to cancel these plans for the third time!!!
Edit
It's early March now, and what I wrote some time ago has changed once more! The trip to France is still on - we may expect we can travel by summer and that a great number of people will already be vaccinated by then.
But the concert in London for August has been postponed to 2022, so no trip to the UK in summer!
Dubai is also still on. Right now you only need a negative corona test to enter the UAE. So don't expect any problems there.
Unfortunately, the trip to Mexico and Canada has been cancelled. And been replaced by a trip to Finland and Estland. The plan is to fly from Brussels to Helsinki, then take a ferry to Tallinn and afterwards the return one to Helsinki. Will be cold in winter, but you can dress accordingly. Will order some thermal underwear just in case...
