The strangest year of our lifetime has certainly been a trying time for many. CoVid19 has caused financial instability, distrust and uncertainty to name just a few negative things.
Amid all of the negative, I have managed to find opportunities for some incredible experiences. Whilst remaining safe and healthy has seen me visit Mexico twice, Thailand, Bali and Switzerland as well as a few Caribbean Islands. In this post I hope to touch on some of my experiences from hopefully I will go into more detail in future posts and include a few of my favourite photos. Over the next few days I would also like to edit some of my previous posts to include some of the amazing things that I have seen over the years.
I began the year on board Harmony of the Seas with my girlfriend Karen, blissfully unaware of the crazy year to come. In terms of work, Harmony is a very difficult ship for a Youth Staff. As it is one of the biggest and most famous ships in the world it is constantly full of children. With a capacity of more than 6, guests we were constantly working hard and helping out in different departments. It is a beautiful area of the country, scorching hot with beautiful beaches.
On one of the days we took a boat tour where we saw Humpback whales and turtles. With the beauty came danger. On separate evenings I saw 2 tarantulas, and a scorpion. The plan was two weeks in Thailand, three in Bali and then I would stay in Philippines for a week and a half before returning to the UK for the two weddings whilst Karen remained in The Philippines for hers.
Unfortunately, CoVid19 changed our plans and none of the weddings happened. At this point the fear around CoVid19 was at the early stages and there were lots of contradictory reports going around. We read news stories that said that the full moon party had been cancelled but when we arrived at our hostel we found out that it was going ahead. After the lush dreamy beaches in the south we spent the second week in the north of the country in Chiang Mai. Bali is where we really began feeling the effects that CoVid19 was having on tourism.
