After driving like hell to pass the borders before they are closed, we arrived home last evening…
On our way we reached Andalusia in the evening, when the state of emergency was announced in Spain. After checking all the news coming from the EU Member States and the numbers of hospitalized people rocketing (when we were leaving Poland there was no cases of the virus in Portugal, one week later there were 220!), with broken hearts we decided to drive back home.
Before leaving we spent a couple of hours on a deserted beach, just playing with kids, enjoying ourselves and our mobile home… We would have loved such live, all of us!!!!
And then we read the news that Catalunia will close its borders with France next morning. So we drove like hell to reach France.
And then we were notified by a Friend (thanks Katja!!!) that the German borders with France will be closed next morning. So we drove like hell to reach Germany…
And then we were queuing for 7h to reach the border of Poland. Lucky us! At some point the lane (actually 2 lanes) of cars waiting to pass the border was 47km long!!!
Finally yesterday we reached Rafal’s parent’s place to leave the van there and move for the next 2 weeks of home quarantine to Rafal’s sister place. Now we need to stay isolated for 14 days after crossing the border.
We are incredibly lucky to have such a supporting family! Rafal’s Sister appartment (new, she was about to move in) was waiting for us, stocked with food (for 2 months rather than the obligatory 2 weeks) and toys for kids. Amazing!!!
So we have to figure out now what to do next… What to do for work, where to look for a place to live… Interesting times coming!!!
May the force be with us! All of us!
Stay healthy!!!
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