Nervous about travelling

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I have always been a bit of a homebody but pre covid had got more into travelling and holidays, trying to show the dc a bit of the world.

Immediately before covid hit we had been doing a lot of work to the house and hadn’t planned any trips due to all spare cash going on the work. So we watched while everyone’s holidays were postponed, repostponed, cancelled etc., and felt glad to have avoided all of that at least.

In two years we have booked one trip abroad, at what we thought was at the last minute, but it still got scuppered.

So now my natural instinct to stay comfy and cosy at home has had two years of reinforcement and I get twitchy at the thought of planning anything. I see people posting photos of trips away and wonder how the hell they’ve done it.

Anyone else having to push themselves to consider holidays again?

I am the same. I used to go abroad 4 times a year if I could, now im dreading DH asking to book something. I really don’t want to go.

We have family to visit, which is pretty much the only reason I’m considering it.

I've certainly got no desire to go abroad at the moment. The hassle of all those hoops to jump through - no thank you.
I would love a decent length holiday in the U.K. where I could really relax and explore, but elderly dependents mean that more than one or two nights away at a time is a total pipe dream right now :-(

We are off to Spain 2 weeks today. Can’t bloody wait.
We went in October which was a PITA with the PCRs required, but now, none.

I'm the opposite to you I'm afraid OP! We had a week away in Summer 2020, and went away in both Summer and Autumn 2021.

We've got two trips booked for this summer (one long haul) and it's making me twitchy that money/annual leave means we have to wait until June before we go anywhere; in pre-pandemic years I'd usually have a holiday in winter.

I work in travel and live and breathe it. I've become more of a homebody through the pandemic in terms of being less interested in nights out etc, but I don't think I'll ever stop having itchy feet to see the world.

Total opposite! I felt so claustrophobic being prevented from traveling that we went a bit mad booking small trips away, ski weekends, city breaks and the like, house swapping and air bnb to keep it all affordable!

We’re in Europe and have been hopping around the continent, but going to England had been a massive faff with all the testing requirements and ever shifting rules, glad they’re out of the way!

I couldn't face traveling with testing restrictions but now they are lifted I've just booked some eurostar tickets.

Can't wait.

As the name suggests I have now been trapped in a country 2/3 the size of Greater London for 2 years. I'm claustrophobic and agrophobic at the same time. Basically I need to break the seal and then I think I'll go mad but the idea of the first trip is a bit anxiety inducing as the situation where I am is quite tricky- a lot of last minute flight cancellations/ transit restrictions etc.

We always do a couple of uk trips and an abroad trip. My last abroad trip was 2019 however through the pandemic each time things have opened we have got away in the U.K. im hoping September will be our time to go away although my partner is more hesitant. Not cos of covid, I work in a hospital with covid contact so he has had that risk throughout. Just the extra tests, paperwork and mask wearing or those not wearing masks when they should etc. We shall see as changes seems to developing all the time.

If you aren’t ready, stay home or stay in the U.K for a short trip away to see how you feel. The short breaks we have had throughout have been life savers and needed while working through it all.