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This summer we had booked everything for a road trip in the south of the USA (Florida/Georgia/South Carolina) every 4. Due to the Coronavirus pandemic our Air France flight was obviously cancelled in mid-June (while I still believed in it...I was the eternal pessimist on that one...I was too optimistic: )., the USA being closed for several months already.
I had evoked a plan B: a road trip to Poland...but when I arrived in July with all this uncertainty I had no desire to start such an organization! So we searched without success for a location in France: plan C also fell through!
Plan D was to take a few nights in a hotel in Brittany to change the air a bit, except that all the French tourists had to make an appointment here in August, because no hotel was available either (we were looking in Abers or Crozon). So we started to move by the day (Ile de Batz, Guerledan etc).
I looked at the plane tickets (my old demons are back...lol!), and I discovered a Nantes Edimbourgh for the Friday of the following week, perfect! we bought the tickets, quickly worked out a program by booking hotels and B&B....the Monday morning it's the cold shower!!!! we discover that the English government is again talking about quarantining some countries including France. We check if we can cancel our accommodations: there is one that is not in free cancellation, after having contacted the owner she assures us that she will reimburse us if by misfortune we have to cancel. We refresh the news continuously until Thursday when the decision has to be announced... we stayed with positive news in the evening of Wednesday. But it's a bit of a cold shower: the English government is changing its mind, the arrivals from France will be quarantined (fourteen) from Friday night to Saturday, at 4am.
Luckily, our plane is supposed to land on Friday at 11pm, so we decide to take the risk and re-book everything on Friday morning from home before leaving: hotels, B&B, rental car and cab for the evening. It's a bit fast but it works! We go to Nantes happy to be able to go to Scotland for a week.
The flight is crowded: the English having advanced their returns... We land around 11pm and at 11:15pm, watch in hand, we are in our cab to our hotel in the center of Edinburgh. There are very nice houses on the road! we are already in a different place. The driver is very nice, he obviously speaks to us about the consequences of the epidemic on the Scottish tourism: where there should be the crowd, the place is empty... In only 15 minutes, here we are at the hotel: the ACE one 4 stars hotel on Grassmarket, at the foot of Victoria Street, with a magnificent view on the castle from our room. What happiness to say that we could leave ! and that a good week of change of scenery awaits us: 2 nights in Edinburgh, 2 nights near Fort William and 2 nights in Braemar in the Cairngorns.
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