The pandemic is still the main topic of our everyday life and the mutations don’t make this easier either, so it becomes more important for us travel addicts to stick to the motto:
#TRAVELLINGWITHRESPECT
For me this means that travelling is absolutely no occasion to follow the rules that are set in place for fighting the pandemic. Travelling does NOT mean, that you leave your responsibility at home and live your freedom no matter the costs.
I even go a step further and state that, while travelling, you should even stricter follow these rules, because this helps in various ways:
- Show respect for the country you travel to and the people living there, through taking your best possible care, so you don’t infect yourself and you don’t infect others. This even helps to keep a destination safe and available for other travelers.
- Show respect for the people in your homecountry and help to avoid spreading the virus between countries to keep the numbers down, so the people can return to their normal life as soon as possible.
- Show respect to the local laws and regulations and always try to inform yourself about all aspects of your travel. If it costs you more effort or more money and you’re not willing to spend this, you better stay at home or you make it more worse for everyone.
And to get this in the right perspective:
I think, that travelling is a basic right.
But there are responsibilities linked to this right and that’s why I absolutely can’t approve the behaviour of a lot of influencers and travelers that go on trips and behave like the pandemic doesn’t exist.
Actually it is the result of egoistic influencers and travelers that go on trips and act like there are no consequences, that travelling is made harder by the governments and needs more investments in terms of money, discipline and effort for everyone.
That’s why my preparations involve a plan for all steps of the trip from Pre-travel preparations, to the actual trip and also some post-travel preparations.
This involves gathering all necessary documents, two self-tests, an appointments for PCR testing and constant monitoring of the regulations of the various countries, self-tests during the trips, enough masks/desinfectantsand much more and finally the tests and if necessary a quarantine when returning back home even if they’re not mandatory.