After being made aware that Canada wants Canadians to return home while commercial flights are still available, we decided to re-schedule our flights home and leave in a timely manner. The first flight that we could get out of Faro was on Thursday so we booked that right away. We are flying to Gatwick and then getting a bus to Heathrow. We will fly out from Heathrow on Friday. We also had lots of hotels, buses and flights to and from Naples to cancel. Not much has been refundable so we are hoping that our insurance will help out with some of it. Brian took over four hours to cancel the things we have done so far. Still have the walking holiday to cancel, and we are surprised that they haven’t cancelled already.
We walked into the old town for a late lunch, and we were surprised to see how many shops and restaurants have closed in the last few days and how empty the streets have become.
I guess we won’t be completely out of the woods until we are home again. Lots can happen in the next few days.
Thank you all for staying in touch with us and keeping us up to date with the latest developments. We still have no idea how widespread the virus is here in Portugal or in Calgary. We still have a couple of days left here but all the tours have been cancelled. I will keep the blog going until we get home. It has been sad to notify so many people that we will not be able to see them as planned.
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