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Originally Posted by BethRags
There is the mention of some outstanding realities and very valid experience in this thread.
It is quite possible that your husband is, well, to put it bluntly, pipe dreaming.
From everything I'm hearing and seeing the covid pandemic is being taken extremely seriously all over the world - as it should be.
In order to plan a trip for September you'd have to dive in quite soon. So what happens if you purchase tickets, book lodgings, and all the thousand little things that international travel requires, only to have it all fall apart because the EU isn't allowing anyone from outside the EU to cross their borders? Then you're in a stressful mess, and sure to lose major money somewhere, somehow.
And there's covid itself. Not to be taken lightly. I absolutely love to travel and have done plenty of it - that said, I would not leave my immediate region of the world at this time if all travel expenses were offered to me free.
I like what Christina said. It seems to come naturally to husbands to forget to listen to their wives. Well, vice-versa it, Birdie. Let him daydream. It's likely his way of coping right now.
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For my husband, there is always pipe dreaming, to a degree. If not in terms of our ability to go to Europe, which is indeed up in the air, then in terms of what he thinks I can do.
Hubby did buy some travel insurance that would allow us to change our flights, if needed, but some of the hotels/Airbnb reservations he made are set in stone. He said that if everything falls apart, that he could offer for his nephew to fly to Barcelona to stay in the Airbnb room. Flights from Prague are only the equivalent of $60 to $80 each way. He could manage that.
You are definitely right that this is all helping my husband to cope. He thinks about it all of the time. I don't much at all.