t21
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I'm in St Martin and I gotta be back in UK early July. Legal stuff, can't be moved.
I have kinda discounted the Carib options. for haul-fly-flyback-relaunch over might-be-a-hurricane season- I think the airlines will have trouble enough surviving... never mind running specualtive off-season flights to small carib islands. Some of the small islands seem to be "doubling down" and proudly trying to eliminate C-19 altogether, which means No Visitors. Which ultimately means back to goat herding instead of tourism? No idea what will happen next season November onwards but I will likely be back at least a little bit. I suppose any Cruise Ships will call the shots about where the bulk of tourists go (2 million a year on SXM alone) .... but so will the island governments, flexing muscles and seemingly pleased with a population that sits indoors casuing as little trouble as possible. Puerto Rico and Cuba reportedly dismissed visiting yachts at gunpoint. Dutch side St Martin seems to have no flights whatsoever and none planned for months yet.
French side is re-opening and I am writing this from a waterside cafe, the only place that I can find serving lunch on the French side, in Marina Royal, the Creperie du Lagon serving er roast chicken, or half a roast chicken, or a hamburger, or lasagne, or Croque Monsieur. But also rosé, and smiles. There are some flights to Guadeloupe, then Paris, and these French islands are super-centralised - you want promotion to Head of dept in the school where you work, then you go to Paris for the interview.
Boat 60' cat, likely off towards Azores... then Canaries? I think. I suppose part or most of the time in Azores will be more finally deciding where to go. UK isn't the most obvious choice - another transat in late 2020 is a better option than living like a mushroom in Europe. So UK means another 2k slog south, the toughest bit of the transat really, and should be early as possible.
Plan A is Lanzarote, and in Calero (thanks to direction from some on this forum over 12 years ago) they "know me" positively ... which is a factor in these strange times.
But plan A needs flights, and preferably not quarantine if possible. Flights from LON-ACE due in June with Rynair or Jet2, maybe only maybe.
Hum. Anyway, the boat is good enough for a transat, even tho i defintiely didn't plan it 8 weeks ago. Aruba a possible but is so windy, very downwind, a slog there and back albeit only a 500 mile slog. Hum, again. Trinidad doesn't even have a date for re-opening. 6 people have died with c-19 so of course, shut completely. Sheesh.
I have kinda discounted the Carib options. for haul-fly-flyback-relaunch over might-be-a-hurricane season- I think the airlines will have trouble enough surviving... never mind running specualtive off-season flights to small carib islands. Some of the small islands seem to be "doubling down" and proudly trying to eliminate C-19 altogether, which means No Visitors. Which ultimately means back to goat herding instead of tourism? No idea what will happen next season November onwards but I will likely be back at least a little bit. I suppose any Cruise Ships will call the shots about where the bulk of tourists go (2 million a year on SXM alone) .... but so will the island governments, flexing muscles and seemingly pleased with a population that sits indoors casuing as little trouble as possible. Puerto Rico and Cuba reportedly dismissed visiting yachts at gunpoint. Dutch side St Martin seems to have no flights whatsoever and none planned for months yet.
French side is re-opening and I am writing this from a waterside cafe, the only place that I can find serving lunch on the French side, in Marina Royal, the Creperie du Lagon serving er roast chicken, or half a roast chicken, or a hamburger, or lasagne, or Croque Monsieur. But also rosé, and smiles. There are some flights to Guadeloupe, then Paris, and these French islands are super-centralised - you want promotion to Head of dept in the school where you work, then you go to Paris for the interview.
Boat 60' cat, likely off towards Azores... then Canaries? I think. I suppose part or most of the time in Azores will be more finally deciding where to go. UK isn't the most obvious choice - another transat in late 2020 is a better option than living like a mushroom in Europe. So UK means another 2k slog south, the toughest bit of the transat really, and should be early as possible.
Plan A is Lanzarote, and in Calero (thanks to direction from some on this forum over 12 years ago) they "know me" positively ... which is a factor in these strange times.
But plan A needs flights, and preferably not quarantine if possible. Flights from LON-ACE due in June with Rynair or Jet2, maybe only maybe.
Hum. Anyway, the boat is good enough for a transat, even tho i defintiely didn't plan it 8 weeks ago. Aruba a possible but is so windy, very downwind, a slog there and back albeit only a 500 mile slog. Hum, again. Trinidad doesn't even have a date for re-opening. 6 people have died with c-19 so of course, shut completely. Sheesh.
