How I’m Adapting My Plans • Indie Traveller

Last week, I travelled again. No, it wasn’t the kind of international travel I usually blog about here. I went on a road trip and B&B stay in Portugal, where I live, and where domestic travel restrictions were recently lifted. There were limitations, of course, but it was travelling nonetheless.

I’m eager to talk about travel in the present tense again, but I also know some countries are still very much in the thick of this pandemic, which makes this difficult. You may even be reading this while still in lockdown. Meanwhile, I’m in a place where the outbreak was relatively contained and where the streets are full of life again. 

So, to be clear: if your public health authorities are telling you to stay at home, you should. 

But I think now is also an appropriate time to start talking about travel again, given that at least some countries are coming out of lockdown. 

For those of us who are seeing (some) travel restrictions lifted, how can we make the best of it? 

And for…