Chaos in the travelworld

OK nothing has gone as planned in this Winter trip, first we were late in leaving and now we cannot get out - thanks corona virus.

OK the plan was to leave on April 2nd. But in the process of arranging an early flight for our next door neighbour, a computer illiterate who first language is not English, we discovered the latest situation.

The Government has issued travel bans and now the airlines have suspended operations for 30 days from the 22nd of March. So everybody who has a return flight after that now has to wait for the "rescue flights". The process consists of registering on the Government travellers' site and await contact from the officials who are handling the rescues. Website here

We haven't been doing much in the past couple of days, just semi "self-quarantining" with a few fellow residents. Of course we are all 'self-distancing' and being confident we believe we are immortal! Where we are there is a large supermarket in the building and a few restaurants and of course the pool on the roof. Today we will explore the stores, yesterday was a 'stat holiday' and nothing was open, and see if there are any shortages on the shelves. 

I will try to post on a regular basis so this is my way of keeping in touch and disseminating info for others in the same position. Thanks to this 'interwebthingy' as we are really plugged in to the Facebook and Twitter. Not much is getting past us.