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Morning Longdogsā¦
Whatās the weather like darn sarf?
Itās gorgeous hereā¦
Not this year , Iāve booked for 2022 .
No choice! The international borders are closed and likely to remain so for at least the rest of this year and perhaps until the middle of next year.
Apparently it keeps us safe from all you damn foreigners with your nasty diseases. 
Now you canāt move in Australia without a bloody caravan blocking the road.
The grey nomads are on the move?
Hi
I want to go later this year.
I am 70 just before Christmas and my unlimited Travel Insurance expires on my 70th.
It will be prohibitively expensive for long haul after that.
Too busy here right now to consider holidays but gosh we can dream. 
You have a private travel insurance Swimmy?
Over here we have 45 days travel insurance included in our home insurance. It even covers emergency medial flights home
We have family in the USA wanting to come over here. We have booked, and cancelled, twice. Maybe around Christmas this year - maybeā¦
Hi, yes, it comes with my Bank account, but expires on your 70th birthday.
We also had had full insurance on any travel to EU Countries. the EHIC Card.
Brexit has ended this and the new system does not offer the same benefits.
We brag about our low taxes here, but in reality they cost many a fortune.
Booked a long weekend in Iceland next month to see the volcano and have a soak in the blue lagoon.
Iām tired of getting my money back from from cancelled flights and cruises, there are still some outstanding bookings to be either moved or cancelled. No way will I be booking anything for quite a while, thatās if I live long enough to ever travel abroad again. Like Swim says, Iām over seventy now with heart disease, and the cost of insurance makes many destination too costly. Apart from that, our passports have expired and I donāt see the point of renewing anytime soon.
Brilliant place Ron, we were there in 2019 and visited a few places, but were on a cruise and couldnāt dilly dally, would have loved to stay longer.
Not just them, itās everybody and his dog.
I have never seen so many caravans on the road, the caravan parks are full and it seems to be many new and shiny vans.
Watching them attempting to reverse onto their site is an entertainment in itself
When the borders eventually reopen I suspect there will be a glut of fairly new caravans on the market but at the moment demand is outstripping supply.
My daughterās parents in law just changed their off road caravan for a smaller one, the one they bought was secondhand but only used once. Apparently the family bought it then went for a weekend trip, returned the caravan to the lot the following Monday having decided caravanning was not for them. The resulting price was still not a bargain but it was a quick sale.
Had a week there in February 2018, flew over the valley in a helicopter where the volcano is now