Tag: coronavirus

  • Traveling to the UK during Covid

    Traveling to the UK during Covid

    When planning travel, it’s become increasingly simple to find guidelines and rules posted on official government websites and spelled out in blogs and news articles. However, the reality of what it looks like to travel can be sort of lost in the shuffle. Most people are reporting general information with few reporting personal experiences. So…

  • Vacationing safely in a high risk Covid area

    Vacationing safely in a high risk Covid area

    We’re getting to the point in this pandemic where we need to start living some semblance of a normal life while also keeping ourselves and our loved ones safe. That means, in part, the return of vacations. But what happens if you inadvertently end up in a Covid hot spot and how do you prevent…

  • Flying is just as bad as I remember, maybe worse

    Flying is just as bad as I remember, maybe worse

    The app on my phone tells me I haven’t been to the airport since February 2020. It feels like a lifetime ago. But I guess flying is like riding a bike; once you’re back at it, it’s just like every other time. Except that it’s worse. Before my flight, I had to schedule a Covid…

  • A Guide to The Expat Life: Tips For 2021

    A Guide to The Expat Life: Tips For 2021

    Guest post by Rebecca Clarke, a UK-based freelance writer whose favourite things include writing, books, travel and caffeine. When she is not writing travel articles or working on the dreaded draft of her first novel, she can usually be found binge-watching true crime documentaries on Netflix.  Living abroad is a fantasy for many. It’s a…

  • Travel in 2021 and beyond

    Travel in 2021 and beyond

    We’re almost a year into a pandemic-induced cataclysmic shift in the way we live, and travel will likely never be the same. As vaccines begin to roll out in countries all over the world, we’re seeing a light at the end of the tunnel of this coronavirus hell. What does that mean for travel in…

  • Wanderlull: Finding the joy in going nowhere

    Wanderlull: Finding the joy in going nowhere

    Is it December already? Where did the year go? Surely when we were all wrapping up 2019, none of us thought that 2020 would turn out this way. I expected to see France in the spring and take a river cruise down the Nile in Egypt before jetting off to South Korea and Japan in…