Vacation whining
Aug. 27th, 2021 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
schneefinkIn early September I'll go on vacation! For two weeks! My first actual, i.e. non-study vacation since February, iirc, and my first two week vacation in, idk, way longer than that. I've been looking forward to this for over a year.
Vacation planning, unfortunately, is difficult. LB and I will go together, which will be nice, but less than two weeks before the vacation starts we still have no concrete plans. I really wanted to go somewhere with Mediterranean beaches, ideally somewhere where one could also hike or go see things, we were thinking of Greek islands or Sicily or Corsica. Many places were burning, but I'm sure we could find something.
However, with the current rapid rise of COVID numbers I'm not sure if leaving the country is a good idea at all. Yes we're both fully vaccinated, and the rise in numbers is mostly because of unvaccinated people, and I've heard that Italians are mostly very good with safety measures, and it's a neighboring EU country etc. – but being fully vaccinated doesn't mean I can't get sick, and I really don't want to get COVID especially in a different country and in a place where I don't speak the language, and with the way cases are currently developing I don't know if it'll even be possible to travel home in three weeks without quarantine. So maybe – probably – it would be smarter to stay home, maybe go on vacation in Austria somewhere, and make a trip to the Mediterranean next year. But I've been looking forward to it for so long, and we'll be very careful so the risk really won't be that high (at least not higher than going to work in Vienna every day), and I could really use a beach vacation. Bäh. Stupid virus.
Vacation planning, unfortunately, is difficult. LB and I will go together, which will be nice, but less than two weeks before the vacation starts we still have no concrete plans. I really wanted to go somewhere with Mediterranean beaches, ideally somewhere where one could also hike or go see things, we were thinking of Greek islands or Sicily or Corsica. Many places were burning, but I'm sure we could find something.
However, with the current rapid rise of COVID numbers I'm not sure if leaving the country is a good idea at all. Yes we're both fully vaccinated, and the rise in numbers is mostly because of unvaccinated people, and I've heard that Italians are mostly very good with safety measures, and it's a neighboring EU country etc. – but being fully vaccinated doesn't mean I can't get sick, and I really don't want to get COVID especially in a different country and in a place where I don't speak the language, and with the way cases are currently developing I don't know if it'll even be possible to travel home in three weeks without quarantine. So maybe – probably – it would be smarter to stay home, maybe go on vacation in Austria somewhere, and make a trip to the Mediterranean next year. But I've been looking forward to it for so long, and we'll be very careful so the risk really won't be that high (at least not higher than going to work in Vienna every day), and I could really use a beach vacation. Bäh. Stupid virus.
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Date: 2021-08-30 07:15 pm (UTC)Thank you!