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Front-Ranger:
Great to catch up with you friend! I also look forward to your Dad jokes and Pride Month cards on fb. I'm glad you can stay close with your family during these crazy times. Today I met with my traveling buddies who I'm going to Europe with (hopefully) in mid-August. We've kind of put off looking at the lodging photos and the itinerary because we didn't want to get our hopes up too much. But if all goes well, we'll be visiting nine countries! England, France, Lichtenstein, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy and Spain. Oh, and San Marino!
brianr:
"Today I met with my traveling buddies who I'm going to Europe with (hopefully) in mid-August."
I find this unbelievable. I had hoped to visit my sister in Australia in September or October. I have the airline ticket vouchers. However It is looking increasingly unlikely as some parts of Australia still have new cases.
Everyone in both Australia and New Zealand now believes we will not be allowed to fly to Europe or North America before 2021, same say 2022. Again I have airline vouchers but will not even think about any plans or a new itinerary until January at the earliest.
New Zealand allows returning citizens to arrive and be quarantined for 2 weeks. We had over 21 days without any new cases and there was not a single case left in the country. Then 2 women, who had arrived from the UK, were allowed out on compassionate grounds after 4 or 5 days as their mother died and they drove from Auckland to Wellington to stay with their Father. They then tested positive and the s.. hit the fan. They have had to trace and test 350 contacts and it has cost a fortune plus the people in charge have had to apologise and the Prime Minister was furious. Now no-one is allowed to leave quarantine for compassionate reasons and the military has been put in charge of quarantine.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on June 19, 2020, 05:36:46 pm --- But if all goes well, we'll be visiting nine countries! England, France, Lichtenstein, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy and Spain. Oh, and San Marino!
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Wow, that's a lot! How long were you planning to be there?
(If you ever do go to Spain, be sure to contact Natali. She's in Madrid and we went to Barcelona for just a couple of days so we weren't able to meet in person, but she sent me all kinds of useful information. And I can't recommend Barcelona highly enough -- at least as of 2013.)
Could you go to Sweden? I hear they have much looser restrictions in general, although I don't know about their travel rules. But maybe you could go there, and visit Sonja!
Sason:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on June 19, 2020, 01:55:11 pm ---
Do you have Mon Cherie in the US?
Dark chocolate filled with liqueur and a cherry. Mhhhh, what a treat. Love them!
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I also love MonCheri!!
Maybe some day we can put together a EuroBrokie MonCheri event! :laugh:
--- Quote ---I started going back into work yesterday. Since I'm a higher risk person, I'm currently not working with children, but sitting in the cellar (where our community/staff rooms are), working on the computer the whole day.
Same thing I've done from home for the last 12 weeks, but now we're not allowed to work from home anymore. Decision from further up ::)
For me it's back to commuting (almost) three hours, only to sit in front of a computer over there instead of here. Oh well. At least I don't have to work with the children and their parents, so my contacts are limited.
Don't get me wrong, in general I do love working with children; I'm just not too keen on being spit on, coughed on, sneezed on, etc. in times of Corona.
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You're commutin' three hours a day?
Sason:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on June 20, 2020, 10:08:47 am ---Wow, that's a lot! How long were you planning to be there?
(If you ever do go to Spain, be sure to contact Natali. She's in Madrid and we went to Barcelona for just a couple of days so we weren't able to meet in person, but she sent me all kinds of useful information. And I can't recommend Barcelona highly enough -- at least as of 2013.)
Could you go to Sweden? I hear they have much looser restrictions in general, although I don't know about their travel rules. But maybe you could go there, and visit Sonja!
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Great idea! Brokies are always welcome!
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