Travelling Internationally During Covid-19

After almost reaching the end of the year in which our love for travel was declared as a ban and threat to human life, international borders are slowly opening up (huh, excuse the second wave) and people have been traveling slightly more. As an international student, I was on one of the repatriation flights back to my home country before the start of the world-wide chaos, international lockdowns and home-quarantine.

I bared as a witness to a time when no one was wearing a mask in Heathrow even while people were evacuating due to fear of a global virus, and now to where major commercial airlines have revamped their marketing to promote that their aircraft are ‘lean, clean, flying machines’ to induce people to believe it is safer for them to travel.

In this rather interesting whirlwind of a year, where must our love for travel go? Should we put it off for a few months since there is now a vaccine? Or should we just succumb to it and take that quick trip (while we are still alive for it)?

I would say that, there are definitely increased restrictions in international travel, additional documentation, longer transit times, all while traveling with the fear of actually contracting it (The one that shall not be named!) If travelling anyway is something your heart is set on, I suggest checking the health and safety parameters of the country you are planning to visit, and ensure utmost precaution while you are there, or otherwise pre-booking that resort for summer isn’t such a bad idea after all. Well, I shall leave you to it.

With no red crosses on our bucket list this year, we are close to the end of it (not of the human kind). With new hopes and desires we bid farewell with the festivities of Christmas and New Year's approaching soon. let us hope we end up filling out that Instagram page with more tagged locations in 2021!

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