When I began my journal entry for today I was reminded that it’s 2 years since we arrived in Spain for the start of what should have been a road trip through Spain and Portugal, heading for the Atlantic coast. We had thought long and hard before setting off, yes there was Covid in Italy, it seemed to be ravaging there, and a little in Spain, but all the reports indicated that it was localised and not really a great issue. How wrong we all were!
We set off as normal, taking the ferry from Portsmouth to Santander, then making our way across Spain in a leisurely fashion. The trip ended rather suddenly when Portugal, Spain and France all went into lockdown, to be followed by the UK a lot later than was prudent. Our ferry crossing was cancelled, rebooked then cancelled again, so we had no alternative but to drive from near Lisbon to Calais, then take the tunnel back to the UK.
This account makes it sound fairly normal, but it was anything but normal, and as we all know, now there is a new normal.