COVID - The travel elephant in the room.
Remember - do your own Covid Research! Traveling in the 3rd decade of the 21st Century is certainly not the same as traveling in the 1970s. Travel costs are way higher, the world is full of refugees trying to escape wars, poverty or searching for better economic conditions, countries want tourists yet are more wary and insular, and of course, COVID-19 and now the Monkeypox. For all my meticulous planning for this trip the one thing I had not fully considered was the actual effect of Covid on my personal travel plans, two years plus after its' onset. After all I live in Western Australia and for two years Covid was something the rest of the world had, whilst we would go out and enjoy our meals and our coffee bars. Watch the following musical satire to understand how different Perth, WA was from the rest of Australia and, by extention, the rest of the world during the lock downs :) I have had four anti-virus vaccinations, I have also recovered from Covid and have had the 2022...