2020 B.C. Before Covid

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Covid-19 And The Stiff Upper Lip

A Journey Through Pandemic Times and UK Memories

Back in The U.K. after a visit to Ireland.

Not talking about The Pandemic is like denying gravity exists. That ostrich approach of sticking our collective head in the sand will not delay or deny the medical catastrophe, the logistics nightmare and the financial Armageddon that each of us experience in our own idiosyncratic ways.

Call it malignant optimism, but the shared hallucination that it is "just the flu" is junk science. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger but make no mistake about it: This virus can kill. It doesn't have a brain, but we do.

Careers are on hold, people are in limbo, and there are only two ways this epidemic will end: Medically, probably never. Socially, whenever we personally decide to take risks.

The Czech Is In The Mail Stimulus Check? No. Wear a mask? Yes

Until then, it is social distancing, hand washing and masks. Not being a mask-loving people, The English embraced the mask early during the pandemic, as it proved to be one of the more effective public-health responses to this epidemic. My colleague Mike Jones in The Czech Republic likewise had this best practice and trailblazing rule in March, and one of the strictest enforcement codes, that is now a symbolic landmark in the fight against The Pandemic.

We remain hopeful as the human desire to socialize will survive the pandemic. We have only to look at the past to see our future. Think of The Roaring 20's after the Spanish Flu. Once this is behind us, prepare to Party Like It's B.C. Before Covid 1999.

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Thames River Journey
Shakespeare Globe Theatre
Irish Sea Adventure
Cornwall Coastline
Portland UK Rocks
Portsmouth Navy Blue
Dublin Guinness Experience
Arctic Highway Norway
North Cape Adventure
Flåm Norway Mountains

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Limerick, Ireland - Tyres Foynes, Ireland - Path of Moist Resistance Galway, Ireland - Claddagh Rings The Irish Sea - Celtic Explorer Dublin - Guinness Storehouse - Intoxivation Dublin, Ireland - Irish Central Pembrokeshire, Mid-Wales - Sun Day Saint Just-By-Rosalind, UK Guernsey Channel Islands Portland UK - Rocks English Channel - White Cliffs of Dover Stonehenge, UK - The Winter Solstice Rocks Dublin's Guinness Storehouse Rocky Mountain HighLanders - Scrabster and Glencoe The Grass IS Greener @ Saint Andrews Beam Me Up Scotty - Edinburgh Chichester Harbor, UK The Cambridge Diet Cambridge University Southampton, U.K. - Forever Cunard Hove, United Kingdom Worthing, U.K. - Highland Hills Portsmouth, U.K. - Navy Blue Beachy Head, U.K. Arundel, U.K. - We Are The English Chichester, U.K. - Cathedrals Bignor and Bosham, UK Eastbourne, UK - Beachy Head Henley-On-Thames - Flow Bath, UK Wales - Greener Pastures London River Thames Findon, UK - Sheep Thrills Southampton - Boat Show Arundel Castle - We Are The English GR8 Brit - The South Coast - Worth Sea-ing GR8 Britain - The Best Ships Are Friendships The Channel, UK - I'm Not There London - The Gem Association of Great Britain Canterbury, UK - Small Is Beautiful Hammersmith Bridge - Get Over It Transatlantic Crossing NY to SOTON Getting Stoned In Hatton Garden, UK Birmingham - Jewellery Quarter Liverpool - San Francisco, With Grayer Weather Edinburgh, Scotland - Plaid Is A Color York - York Minister Cathedral Winchester - UK - Good Knight London - The Underground London - Westminster Abbey Beam Me Up Scotty - Edinburgh Driving On The Arctic Highway - Midsummer Ready, Set, North Cape - Arctic Circle Flåm, Norway - Enriched By A Wonderful Osmosis

In Search of Lost Time

Circa February 2020... B.C. Before Covid

They call it Planet Earth but it's mostly covered in blue ocean. The United Kingdom is an island nation. I came by sea, by chance. I stay on land, by choice... Worth Seaing:

July means Sailing to Norway, but not in 2020... Let's remember the journeys that shaped our understanding of travel, adventure, and the precious nature of human connection.

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