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Bring Me Sunshine

July 6, 2021 /

Our “best case scenario” for most of this year has been that by mid July, travel restrictions would start to be lifted and we just might be able to get away. We are very excited now that such a scenario is becoming reality – so excited in fact that we have booked our flights to get away for the entire summer. 

As of July we are now 19 months into our retirement, a retirement which was meant to be endless travel seeing as much of the world as possible but which instead has been…well, we all know the end to that sentence. In the end we were travelling for 148 days of 2020 but so far this year have not been able to leave these shores at all.

Now, as long as nothing changes, we will be back travelling in less than two weeks’ time. Yep, we’ve committed, and booked flights, although for now we’re going to keep schtum about precisely where we’re headed. It’s Europe, because long haul travel is unlikely to be on the agenda for a while, but where is ultimately included on this trip will depend to some degree on whether border crossings become more easy.

It was for a while our intention to book one way flights only, but the new rules resulting from Brexit mean that we aren’t able to enter the EU without proof of a return flight within the 90-day visa free period. So we now have flights out in mid July and flights home in early October. All being well, that’s an 84-day adventure. Eighty four days of sunshine, blue sky and sea, mountains, exciting journeys, food, drink and experiences.

Not wishing to “count our chickens”, but we are definitely letting ourselves get excited. Our travel bug is calling loudly…

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