Waiting for My Next Trip
Muscat, Oman and a bitter-sweet trip cut short due to the Covid-19 Virus
It was meant to be an eight-day trip but I had to shorten it to five days because everything was closing down – better safe and back home than stranded in a far away place for many weeks. Even on my first round-the-world trip I had to rearrange flight destinations because of a disease outbreak – some would say more of a first-world or more accurately a middle class problem.
You don’t need much to travel: a small hand-luggage rucksack
and add some healthy walking legs.
I saw a few doors and some local architecture,
and enjoyed two days of diving in very salty sea water with occasional swarms of jellyfish all swimming in random directions
before everything closed down because of the global pandemic Corona virus.
It was a risk but I needed the break! Unfortunately Skype is blocked in Oman which isn’t that helpful when trying to call UK telephone support numbers for changing flight dates – there are always new challenges and problems to work around. The technical solution may be to use a VPN.
Keep travelling – but not at the moment!