Cancelled

 

The last few days of last week were a bit....average. Between Friday and Saturday, we received:

• an eamil advising our internal Athens-Crete flights had a time change
• an email advising our return flight London-Glasgow had been cancelled and we were booked on an earlier one
• an email advising our flight to Portugal had been cancelled
• an email advising our flight to Budapest had beeen cancelled
• an email advising one of our day trip to the Cliffs of Mohr had been cancelled

Ouch.

We've since made the executive desicion to cancel our Budapest/Vienna Christmas market trip - it's just too risky between both destinations being on the quarantine list, and more importantly, it's right before Sarah and Daniel are due to fly home and there's no way we want to impact that. 

Ireland was an unexpected trip to have to cancel - Dublin looks like it's gone backwards with regardss to Covid and since that was where we were flying in and planning to be based, it just doesn't look like the trip we envisaged. All museums and galleries are closed, bars can only be open if they serve food and are only able to have a max of 15 people there at any one time. Doesn't sound like it's a place to be a tourist. 

Portugal....we can change our flight to a later one, but we won't really get to see much if we do that. Given that's on the quarantine list and we're still hoping to go to Greece, it's pretty much a done deal for Cameron and I to cancel :s Saying that, we do fully expect Greece will have to get cancelled. As it is, Crete is on the quarantine list, and with the flight change to that, it'll make it a bit easier to cancel those flights....so here's hoping Athens is still good. And gets off the qaurantine list. Cos if it doesn't....well. 

But there's my udpate on our travel plans for the rest of the year. We have a few local trips booked in - this weekend we're heading to Skye (as long as no new restrictions come through), we're going to the Cairngorms in October, London in November, and then to spend Christmas just outside London, so we do have plenty to look forward to. Just not the same variety. 2020, folks. A year of what could have been.