Sabbatical in Corona times
To Italy? No, there’s Corona, let’s go to Spain…
It was supposed to start in 2020, the job was prepared, the fat one was ours, had been tried and what was still to come, let’s go. Well, and then came Corona. Our sabbatical started in mid-February, the trip was supposed to start right at the beginning of March. There were big plans, Italy, Monaco, Spain, Portugal, France and, if it works out, off to the far north, to Norway.
Then it started, the news knew nothing half and nothing whole, but it was bad in Bergamo, Italy. Still completely ignorant of what will keep the entire world in suspense for another 2.5 years, we rescheduled. Straight off to Spain and then the rest of the trip planned in my head.
Well, and what we experienced then, you can read in the following blog posts.
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Further north – Road trip 2020
Before we tell our story here, here is the resolution of how it turned out with the demolished rental car. The day of return came, we were excited.How exactly would it be looked at, had we understood the passage with the €1,200 deductible correctly? We parked the car backwards, behind us a wall. ;-). A…
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Ericeira – Road Trip 2020
On the way from the cork oaks back to the sea we had no real idea where to go. But then a tip from the social networks opened up, a surf camp south of Peniche.We didn’t really want to surf, but we felt like meeting some nice people and not going to a campsite in…
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From Coimbrão to Costa Nova to Porto – Road Trip 2020
Another fixed point on our way north was Nazaré. The place with the giant waves, once standing in front, pictures and videos we had seen x-fold, so let’s go. Nazaré is located on the northern and southern side of a lighthouse, i.e. THE lighthouse. It is divided into an upper and lower town, which are…
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Viana do Castelo – Road Trip 2020
We were not aware when we arrived that Viana do Castelo was to be our last stop for the sabbatical, but as so often before, things changed quickly and usually differently than expected.But now let’s start from the beginning. The journey from Porto to Viana took about 2hours. Our exact destination was the hotel “Feel…
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The End – Road Trip 2020
The time had come, the day of departure was fixed. Corona meanwhile had Spain and also the south of France under such a high control that these areas were declared a risk area by the Foreign Office. We didn’t want to stay there, we didn’t want to go camping, if we could. We planned our…