Uppsala; Thursday, 08 October, 2020

When I’d originally booked the airport hotel and the annual leave for today the plan was an early morning flight to Sofia and then a couple of days exploring more of Bulgaria outside the capital that I’d visited a year ago. That was all booked in November 2019, and then Covid happened.

Up until mid-September I’d kind of hoped that Bulgaria might make it back onto the UK’s safe list, but three weeks out it was clear that wasn’t going to happen, so I cancelled the booking – got my flight voucher and then used it straight away to book through to Sweden which had, the previous day, made it onto the safe list.

Three weeks later and it was a nervous journey over to Heathrow waiting for a decision by the Government on whether Sweden would stay on the safe list or come back off again. Thankfully, the decision was to make no decision – so my trip could go ahead.

This did mean as soon as I checked into the hotel I needed to cancel by back-up back-up plan of a trip to Berlin.

Admin completed I popped over to the terminal to pick up some things for dinner and after a light dinner in my room, and a drink in the hotel bar, I turned in for the night.