Well, 2020, what to say here that's travel related.

Not.

Much.

2020 was meant to host our first overseas holiday with the children to Singapore in April, but some guy in China decided to eat a bat and suddenly the world caught the Novo Coronavirus 19. International borders closed, hell, internal borders between Australian states closed and suddenly Perth, the most remote capital city in the world found itself feeling even more isolated. A world in lockdown.

Fortunately, being remote does have its pluses. We never really got Covid-19 over here. Sure, I didn't go to the office for three month and sure, we couldn't travel beyond the walls of our own houses for a period, but then life slowly started getting back to normal, sans travel.

We skipped town and went south down to Margaret River and stayed on a lovely farmstead where the kids collected fresh eggs every morning for breakfast, fed the pig Oinky, saw the horses, cows, sheep and goats and generally just enjoyed being out of the big city for a small break.

Beyond that, we didn't go anywhere. Great for my annual leave balance but wearing on my mental health and my desire to continue to travel. Even the kids are asking when we can next go on a plane and when will the virus go away. 

Here's hoping the borders open (safely) soon and we can venture a little further than our own backyard (which is currently booked solid with Australian's "wondering out yonder". Still very keen to start showing the kids more of this beautiful blue planet.