TRAVEL feels unreal right now – we’re stuck in lockdown and can only dream of the adventures we had. So when we can we go again? That’s what we want to know.
I woke up this morning and checked out the YouTube recommendations on my TV and found the BBC Travel Show – or it found me – BBC Travel Show on YouTube and it provided some hope and new ideas. You should check it out.
Thankfully the BBC is a state funded channel, though it may be accused of sycophancy towards the establishment , it still has commercial neutrality. Which means it doesn’t talk up the idea of a quick solution to an international pandemic for the sake of public relations and profits as much as some.
Instead we’re hoping June 2020 will be a potential breather from the claustrophobia of social isolation, if you have any money, with some kind of limited holidays available. For the full details on what you can and can’t do to avoid spreading a killer virus check out this useful blog provided by Conde Nast Traveller site.
When will we travel? Conde Nast Traveller
We need some open coffee bars, hotels and airports with destinations organised and ready to give visitors a safe and relaxing experience. Which means co ordinated planning between businesses and local services. But it looks like we can be optimistic that we will be able to take some kind of holiday this summer. Again, if we have the money.
Are we being realistic? Maybe.
It’s important to avoid the lie that it’s all happening tomorrow and to avoid the lie that Covid-19 is a hoax, exaggerated and a melodrama. Personal greed and self interest in retaining private income generated and funded an immediate worldwide pressure to be irresponsible and to deny the facts as soon as this pandemic began.
Only mass fatalities and the threat of financial penalties and criminalisation of failing to lockdown, forced some people to stop going to the pub or forced some entrepeneurs to stop pretending that it was safe to stay open for business.
It’s obvious that some travel companies still have a vested financial interest in pretending that everything is going to be working and back running before it genuinely will be and we don’t want to nurture false hopes. Yet we still want to plan and not to give up on our ideas of seeing more of the planet.
Personally I am looking forward to the simple job of driving to Anglesey in Wales from my present home town of Preston in Lancashire, England. I’m still dreaming of that Beachcomber Bar in Benlech overlooking the golden sands and serving top beer. I would love to gig at the open air stage too – you can but hope.
Main thing – when you come to optimism about coronavirus who can you trust? New Zealand and Taiwan have cut down the rate of fatalities. Our local hospitals have seen less tragedy than first expected. We’ll have to wait and see, I suppose.
Nothing wrong holding onto your dreams.
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