Anti-C

It's been a little quiet in here of late, during our three-week jaunt to Greece, but we're back now and preparations for our expedition are continuing. 

I hear people saying "Covid is over" and "it's time to move on."

Well it isn't over, and you can move on if you like, but I know folk are still catching it, even though vaccinated, and in some cases they're still suffering with it. Perhaps more to the point, for this blog, is that people are still catching it on board ship. Nikki's keeping up with the various blogs, forums, and facebook groups associated with the trip, the boat, and the company, and knows this for a fact.

Hurtigruten's anti-Covid measures are pretty strict, especially before you board. Once you're aboard, clearly they want to minimise the chances of other passengers catching it and having their holiday compromised.

So to manage our risk in the run up to our departure date, we'll be in a kind of self-imposed lockdown. I've declined invites to two Christmas "dos" and I'll be swerving my monthly "curry club" meeting at the beginning of January.

But once we're on the ship, there's not much we can do to avoid coming into contact with it. Apart from returning to 2020 levels of "masking." So we're ready for that too.

Exactly how many of these we take with us will depend on the latest state of play in the 10-14 days before we leave home. 

Better safe than sorry, as my old Nan used to say.