Daring to travel again

Now that both my sister and I will be fully vaccinated by mid June, we at last dare to make a reservation for a trip abroad.

No that far away, as travels outside Europe (and even in it) are not always possible. We plan to go to Luxemburg for a couple of days. Belgians are already welcome nowadays in our neighboring country, and the terraces of restaurants and cafés were already opened two weeks ago. Next to that, you don't need a negative PCR test to come into Luxemburg - at least if you travel by car or by train. 

We expect that trips into the EU countries should be possible as of summer. The EU wants to introduce a green vaccin pass, which would allow free travel in all the states of the EU. To get this pass, you need to have had your vaccinations, or have the result of a recent negative PCR test, or having had corona recently. 

By the end of this month, we'll probably have a better view on what's possible for August. We really long to make some trips, as we have been forced to stay at home for over a year!

Next Saturday, the terraces will also open in Belgium. And they expect that the weather is at last going to improve - we've had really cold days in April. By next weekend they expect more that 20° Celsius. We plan to go to the seaside for the long weekend for the long weekend (May 12th-May 17th) and then the next weekend (also a prolonged one) to Antwerp. 

The corona situation is slowly improving. The number of hospitalisations is going down, and also the number of infections - at last. More and more people get their vaccin. The vaccination centra at last work at full capacity and most of the older population (up to 60 years old) has been vaccinated already. Hight percentages to, above 90% - especially in Flanders. We're doing better than the Brussels area and Wallony. In Flanders they have started with the eldest people and they go down in age. By mid July, they expect that all of the adults will have had their vaccin and they can already start with the 16-18 year olds.