It’s a staple of many tour companies, the all-in whistle-stop tour or a country where you can see the main sights. It sounds incredible on paper. See the world, maximise your trip time, and have lots of fun! As I needed a holiday, I booked a 4-day, 3-night trip around the beautiful Czech Republic. One Monday in May I set out with my better half on my first holiday since the Pandemic. Was it a good idea?
COVID-19 has been a disaster for the travel industry. In a country like Austria, which sees tourism contribute almost 10% of GDP, the pandemic has been particularly devastating. Hotels, gastronomy, and tourist attractions have been closed now since late November. Shops did manage to open a little in the run-up to Christmas 2020, but were closed again in January, opened again in March, and closed again for April. So small retailers didn’t make it through the April lockdown and it’s likely that many hotels and gastronomy businesses will likely suffer the same fate.
Since I relaunched the Wiener Wanderland website, I’ve been filling its pages with old trip reports from the first website and writing new reports based on past trips. Living in a time of a pandemic isn’t the best time to launch into a career as a travel writer. My backlog of old photos meant that content was fairly easy to come by, at least up until now. As of today, the cupboard is bare, more or less. There are shots from Vancouver, Canada, and Tokyo, but these go back many years and perhaps aren’t up to the level I’m happy to write about. There are enough to write an article around though. For every trip I’ve had ample pictures of though, there are more than a few destinations I visited for work, where time was too short, or where things went wrong, so there’s just to enough to cover a whole article, but maybe there’s a nice story to tell. So here we are. Welcome to the ‘Almost’ trips.
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