POSITIVE

 Sometimes positive is a good thing…in the case of Covid….NOT. After we all arrived and got settled at our hotel, the staff sent a medical technologist to each person’s room to be tested for Covid. As I said before, Spain didn’t have a problem with Covid status, but to fly BACK to USA …. We all needed a negative test signed by a doctor. As the testing continued during the afternoon…. We rested and repacked for our flts home the next morning.  There was also a farewell dinner to attend. As the afternoon went on, we were notified that quite a few people were testing positive so they decided to have 2 dinners…one for the sickies…and one for the people who were still negative.

As we entered the sickie dining room at the hotel that evening, it was apparent that A LOT of our travel mates were also there …. Over 30 of our original 60 shipmates had tested Positive, as Steve and I had….. so there was trouble brewing. Nan was still negative and off with the other bunch to a nice restaurant…but that would change also. So THE BIG PROBLEM was no one was leaving the next day as planned.  We all lost our airline reservations, and our seat assignments…and we didn’t know what the recourse would be or when we would be able to fly home, or how. To add to the dilemma….the tour guides, who were our “go to guys” for everything…were also leaving as they were done with us and had other trips to guide. We were in free fall!