At last! It looks like we've had the last of the trouble with corona. More and more countries here in Europe cancel their measures against Covid19. Also the United Kingdom.
Starting on February 11th, every tourist who's vaccinated can enter the UK without having to do a test on the second day of arrival. You just need your CST and an international passport.
As soon as we heard about this, we were quick to book a trip to London. It's been over two years since we last were there - the weekend of 6-8 March 2020, just before the first lockdown began the next weekend. We sat there among 20,000 others in the O2 Arena and were on tube trains that were more than full, and never caught anyhting.
It will be fun to be in London once more. It's great for shopping and we can go and see some musical theatre in the evening.
In times before corona we got to the UK more than once a year. There even was a year when we went at least 4 times! In the past two years, we had to replace London by Antwerp or Rotterdam (which is also fun). It's just not so funny to have to stay at the same place all the time. You have the travelling vibes or not. I guess we inherited them. Our grandparents went on trips to Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria in the post WW2 area. And before that, in the 20's and 30's, they used to rent a villa in Knokke for the whole summer and went there with their family. My mother was used to going abroad and so when she married she convinced my dad to to the same (he quickly took to it). As soon as we were 6 years old we were allowed to go along. By the time we were adults, we had already seen a great part of Europe. Later travels took us to North and South America, to Asia and Africa. I hope I can still see Oceania before I die. With a bit of luck (no cancellation of flights) we'll go to the North Pole soon, and perhaps we can take a cruise to the South Pole later on.
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