FINALLY…and A Lookback.

 It sure seemed quiet after everyone we knew had left. We had “probable seats and flts and were just waiting for the next NEGATIVE test results and new paper work. A very pleasant and honest young man arrived in the afternoon to administer yet a another Covid test. I have been sworn to secrecy by the officials in Spain….but I can say there was a glitch, and then everything was OK, and we were issued new papers. We started packing! 

Next am we arrived at the crowded airport to begin our very convoluted flt home with many stops and a completely different airline….. but by then, we just wanted to GO HOME! We weren’t going argue or make waves. More red tape at the airport and yet another form to fill out for the US government saying we actually were tested and agreed to about 12 questions.    We were so relieved when we were handed out boarding passes and checked our luggage, we went to a coffee shop to have breakfast and relax.  It was then that we actually LOOKED at our boarding pass and saw we were booked on our original airline and it was straight thru to SEATAC.  So that is why there are Miracles in Barcelona. Ciao!

Usually I do a recap of the trip, but this Covid story sort of took over everything else …for awhile. Now, I can laugh at the inconvenience of it all….but at the time…frustration, tiredness, confusion, worry and all that put a damper on the last days.

But Greece was a blast, Italy is always great to be in, and we did get to spend unintended
days in the gorgeous city  of Barcelona. We had good friends to share all the good and all the bad. We met some interesting folks along the way. We ate fabulous food and drank many glasses of good wines. We learned and laughed, and and had fun adventures…some planned and some not…. And that’s  what makes traveling an adventure vs just a trip. Covid definitely caused problems and put a damper on many things…. But we somehow got thru all the issues.  Steve and Bruce were still testing positive as they arrived home and for a week or more. I truly was Negative by the time I arrived home, and Nan, who had escaped Covid completely on trip, came down with it after a week of being home. Go figure.