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Published: June 28th 2020
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Day 99 - a turning point . Tomorrow is a big day . The start of Week 15 and the last few days of June . Sunday morning . Another breakfast . Another walk and another view out of the same old window . Sunday is always a good walking day . I set off out . The rain had been falling lightly overnight . This morning it had stopped but the wind had picked up. The leaves on the trees were blowing . Not gently as you would expect in June. The sky was cloudy with the hint of more rain to come .
As I walked down the hill and around the Lido I realised that there was no-one out . Was it because it was Sunday? Was it the inclement weather ? Where were the fishermen . My only company two swans gracefully swimming in the dank water . A family of coots . Mum and three lanky legged chicks . She shouted to them as she walked past me .
Over the last few months I have gone from plans for walking . I knew exactly where I was going and how long I would
be out . Now my walks were more loose with no direction and less of a plan . I was full of thoughts of travelling . Perhaps Boris who had pronounced he was as fit as a butchers dog would lift the restrictions on travel . I had spent time trying to find out about travel insurance . Perhaps we would be Ok for Covid 19 protection as our September holiday had been booked before March . I would need to ring the company and check it out . If so then that was some good news . If Boris changed the rules and the Foreign office guidance was changed then we would be good to go . Greece too hot - what about Spain? Too hot . We could stay in France . Plenty to see . Or even try to recover something of our May trip to Scandanavia . For the first time in weeks I felt positive .
There is a feeling of the onset of Autumn - I know in my mind that we still have two more months of Summer . July and August can be hot . It is not until September that
Autumn kicks in but the flowers are going over the signs of Autumn are appearing . Just quietly and barely noticeable . But there all the same .
A water main had fractured on my route . Water ran down the road like a river . I commented on it as I stood talking to an elderly couple . They were as fascinated in where the water was coming from as I was . I walked Middle Road . Some of the houses small . Others mansions . Two graves dug in one of the gardens . I wondered how easy it would be to sell your home with a grave in the back garden . I walked the woodland path that took me down to Bottom Road . Not far to get home .
Cob nuts growing in the trees . Mushrooms . It really did have the feeling of Autumn .
At home I checked our train booking . it is still there . I printed off the form where we declare we are free from Covid 19 . Forms that I hope we will take with us to the Tunnel in September . Am
I tempting fate I wondered ? Better be optomistic of travelling rather than pessimistic . So that was Day 99 over and done with . What will tomorrow bring ?
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Bob Carlsen
UK citizens traveling to the EU...
I just saw the news that the UK will be treated just like every other member of the EU regarding cross border travel until 31 Dec 2020! Your September trip does not have to be cancelled. I'm jealous. U.S. residents are banned according to the current list, but this decision will be updated every 2 weeks. I think those countries with 16 of fewer deaths per 100,000 will be allowed entry. In the U.S. they count someone as a Covid-19 death even though the person died of a gun shot or another primary cause. They are readjusting numbers now based upon death certificates. I tried to find the number of deaths per 100,000 within the last two weeks for U.S. and EU countries by Googling the question but couldn't find the numbers.