Every pub/bar in Ireland has been ordered to close until March 29th.

BA are fucking useless.

Thought I'd watch tonight's big UFC fight from Brazil - it's really weird in an empty stadium.

Now you know how I feel every other weekend.

Just wait until EUFA have done their thing.

Mind the gap.

See you in 4 months Tikay

Thought I'd watch tonight's big UFC fight from Brazil - it's really weird in an empty stadium.

Now you know how I feel every other weekend.

I've got until April 11th before my flights need to be ticketed and paid for, for the June trip.
Pleased I've got a few weeks to see what happens before making a financial commitment.
Though I'm not sure I'll be able to justify the expense of the trip as the situation at work is going to be very unclear and dicey for a while I think.

No-one getting into the States from Monday. At least from Europe anyway, including us.

Europe is closing ranks.

Poland stopping UK nationals.
Flights to Canary Islands not being allowed to take off today.

The worst is yet to come....

Mass redundancies & even bankruptcies in the Airline industry alone are going to be off the chart.

 

The whole travel/tourism industry is gonna fall apart at this rate.

Airlines
Tour Operators
Agencies
Hotels
Airports

Which will then trickle down to the local businesses across Europe that rely on the tourism cash.

The travel industry as we know it has probably changed forever in these last 2 weeks.

Add the Cruise Liner business to that list.

Don't know how I missed them off, probably gonna be the most immediately impacted of the lot. Pretty much all major cruise lines have suspended operations for at least a month.

We have some clients on a round the world voyage at the moment, left UK early January and not due back until early May.
The cruise operator, Cruise & Maritime, yesterday announced cancellations across their entire fleet and all ships to return to their home docks in UK/Germany. All impacted customers to receive a full refund.
So our couple, who are probably somewhere over towards Australia at present, will be due a refund of £26,000 on their return, and essentially will have had a 10 week cruise for free.

There are not gonna be many winners in all this mess, but I think they will view that as a result.

Europe is closing ranks.

Poland stopping UK nationals.
Flights to Canary Islands not being allowed to take off today.

The worst is yet to come....

Mass redundancies & even bankruptcies in the Airline industry alone are going to be off the chart.

 

The whole travel/tourism industry is gonna fall apart at this rate.

Airlines
Tour Operators
Agencies
Hotels
Airports

Which will then trickle down to the local businesses across Europe that rely on the tourism cash.

The travel industry as we know it has probably changed forever in these last 2 weeks.

Europe is closing ranks.

Poland stopping UK nationals.
Flights to Canary Islands not being allowed to take off today.

The worst is yet to come....

Italy's figures are getting worse.

Quite a few countries banning UK nationals for the time being.

Hearing that BA are under severe financial pressure.

This is one big clusterfuck for the world.

There are some truly obscene prices for hotels on my dates in June (5 nights, 14th to 19th)

Places like NYNY/Mirage/Aria/MGM/Vdara/Signature MGM all at prices ridiculously lower than I've ever seen before (and that's before my agent discount!)

Pick of the bunch has to be Aria at £340 and Mirage at £210. Spoilt for choice and so far we've booked and cancelled NYNY, Venetian, Cosmo and NYNY again, currently have a balcony suite at Signature reserved but if prices keep falling then that will be subject to change too.

If demand drops with coronavirus kicking in then they could be giving the rooms away before long.

In all seriousness both teams looked poor, we gifted you 2 goals but don't think either team pulled up many trees. One of the worst derbies of recent memory.

It's such an insignificant fixture for us (just like it used to be for you 10+ years ago, but now it's your cup final whereas it used to be ours), much bigger fish to fry on the horizon, and I think that showed in how lacklustre we were. It's genuinely like playing Everton or Burnley these days when there is nothing riding on it (apart from bragging rights) like today.

Always disappointing to lose a derby but it's a very meh feeling.

That went well.

No doubt hhfyhhhlllll will be along soon to point out that City are still a long way ahead of us in the league...

Mind the gap.

The latest developments in Italy have done it for the cruise a group of us had booked.

4 nighter departing from Genoa, but we were all flying into Milan from various airports and travelling together to Genoa from there.
Party of 5, one has had to drop out anyway cos of the virus, and 2 were warned by their work they'd be put into self isolation for 2 weeks on their return.

So instead we're making use of the flight back we all had booked from Majorca (where the cruise is due to finish) and just going there for a few nights instead.

Fingers crossed MSC cancel the cruise and then we can claw back some £££. If not then I'll be badgering our rep for some credit towards a future booking

Imagine if it got so bad that they had to cancel the football season.

Imagine if Liverpool hadn't yet mathematically won the league should this happen.

Imagine if the only outcome is to declare the season null and void.

Imagine all the people in Liverpool going apeshit over that.

Imagine....