Dare to dream about - or even plan for - travel and destinations in 2021? Yes, of course! Perhaps we have all become a little more humble after the pandemic year 2020, and we may no longer take travelling for granted. But there is light at the end of the tunnel, and you can always plan and dream!
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When can you travel again?
Of course, it is difficult to know when you can - or when it is appropriate - to travel again. Actually, it is already possible to visit certain destinations, but because the infection is in an intensive phase, because there are many rules to comply with and because the situation at the destination may not be as desired, many people are waiting. We will also wait to travel until the situation is much better.
We, like many others, are now hoping for the vaccine. Before we even think about travelling, we want to see that the vaccine has an effect around Sweden and Europe, and that the infection is reduced. We would also prefer to get the vaccine ourselves, and since we are neither 70+ nor belong to any risk group, we will have to wait. Perhaps it will be as some predict, that the (vaccinated) pensioners will start travelling long before the rest of us.
According to estimates, which are of course only estimates and not facts, the adult population should be able to be vaccinated by midsummer. Based on this idea, we are planning to be able to travel abroad from the summer onwards. Men if the situation suddenly feels better, we are happy to travel earlier! And if things are different in other ways - well, we have to adapt to that.
Travelling in spring 2021
This spring we plan to stay primarily in Sweden, but if the situation improves we can also consider travelling in Europe. We'd like to take the campervan and discover new places, for example along the coast north and south of Sweden. Stockholm. If it becomes possible to cruise again, it would be exciting to cruise, for example, to Gotland or the High Coast. Our friends have also talked about going with us to Öland to go bird watching. Who knows?
Travelling in summer 2021
This summer we hope to be able to make the two-month motorhome trip that we actually planned for the summer of 2020, but which we had to cancel. It is not entirely clear how the route will go, but we had planned for new destinations in Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria and Slovakia. We also thought about Hungary. We hope, hope that we can make that trip this summer!
Travel in autumn 2021
We haven't planned for autumn 2021, but we have some loose ideas and dreams. Will it be possible to travel outside Europe then? In March 2020, we would have travelled to Tunisia, in collaboration with the Tunisian tourist office and together with another travel blogger. We were very much looking forward to that trip (sooo much exciting history in Tunisia!) so it would be great if that trip could happen.
Other destinations we talk about from time to time include Egypt (we'd like to visit Cairo and Alexandria) and St Petersburg (we've been dreaming about that city for a long time!). Just to name a few examples...
What are your travel plans and dreams for 2021?
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Matts+Torebring says:
Now that we know that the vaccine is in use, we, as 70+ people, have started to dream of a brighter future. We actually tested a travel route on the west coast at the beginning of the summer. We who plan trips at the beginning of the summer cannot count on sun and heat in the same way as when we travelled to southern Europe for almost twenty years in a row. Europe as a whole is no longer attractive, only a few individual gems that we would like to return to. Now we put our health first.
03 January 2021 - 7:29
Helena says:
Health is most important of course, I agree! Hope you will have the opportunity to make the trips you want in the future!
03 January 2021 - 11:18
Lena - good for the soul says:
Yes, oh, how we dream of being able to travel again in a sensible way. Of course, the trips to Germany with Andrea's family, autumn and spring as we usually do. But of course we hope that our postponed safari trip to Tanzania will take place this autumn. We will hopefully have time to get vaccinated so it is mostly a question of how it is at the destination.
Thank you please for the link to my Bering Guide in previous posts, by the way! It is appreciated!
Hug Lena
03 January 2021 - 8:03
Helena says:
Yes, exactly, it's about both your own vaccination and what happens at the destination. Africa seems to have less access to vaccines, and otherwise I do not think you get so many reports from there? But hope that you can get away on your safari trip in the future! And before that travel to Germany of course!
03 January 2021 - 11:20
Husis blog says:
What a wonderful blog post in these times when the owners hardly know what they "dare" to plan. I know that my owners also have some plans, but nothing is booked.
Let's hope the vaccine works, the pandemic is going downhill. But before the owners dare to travel somewhere abroad, the vaccine will probably really give the message that it is good. Because what if this vaccine does not hold up, does not take the mutated Covid-19, terrible thought.
03 January 2021 - 9:04
Helena says:
Yes, we hope that the vaccine will go well now! We also realise that you don't know for sure how something will turn out, but we prefer to assume that the vaccination will go as planned. If it turns out differently, you simply have to take it then. And dreaming and planning is nice so long! 🙂
03 January 2021 - 11:22
Åsa at husbilsresa.se says:
Hi Helena, as usual you are a brilliant writer. We have about the same dreams and thoughts. But it all ends up that the best trips that I really long for are the trip to my mother's hug, the trip to the grandchildren's hugs, the trip to close contact with family and friends. Simply a corona-free everyday life. Big hug 🥰
04 January 2021 - 19:57
Helena says:
Thank you Åsa, what a nice comment! It warms! Also a nice answer! Hope we can soon socialise with loved ones without obstacles!
04 January 2021 - 21:12
Snows says:
First of all, we want to visit our son in Stockholm. Then I could imagine Gotland. A return visit to Parga is also included somewhere but nothing is booked yet. Egypt is always interesting to visit.
03 January 2021 - 9:23
Helena says:
Yes, visiting family and friends is perhaps what goes first!!! Hope you get the opportunity for your other plans too!!!
03 January 2021 - 11:22
Ama de casa says:
I don't really dare to unleash the dreams yet. Our planned (but unbooked) long trip in the summer of 2020 was also cancelled. Now I hope to soon be able to make a small micro-tour here in the Valencia region, which we are still not allowed to leave. New directives will apparently be issued on 15 January. We just have to wait and see, and fall in line. We all need to work together to stop the stupid virus.
Have a nice Sunday!
03 January 2021 - 10:01
Helena says:
It's a bit of give and take, if you're going to dare to dream, but we probably prefer to dream and then we have to cancel or change, if that's the case 😉 And it's true, we must all help to overcome the virus now!
03 January 2021 - 11:24
Lisa says:
Sounds so wonderful to read about your dreams and we are keeping our fingers crossed that everything works out so that all our travel plans become a reality. We also dream but there are so many places to dream about that it is difficult to choose. We were on Gotland this summer and it was a very nice trip with sun and heat.
03 January 2021 - 14:54
Helena says:
Sure, it's hard to choose! Maybe not everything can become reality, but it's fun to dream and plan 🙂.
04 January 2021 - 20:53
Hasse says:
In September, I see myself once again sitting on the edge of the Adriatic coast and enjoying everything it has to offer. But loose dreams of course, nothing booked or planned. You have to be a bit positive in the middle of it all.
03 January 2021 - 10:18
Helena says:
You have to allow yourself to be a bit positive! Hope the Adriatic Sea plan is cancelled! 🙂
03 January 2021 - 11:24
Across the board says:
The first thing on the programme is probably a trip to Sweden sometime in the spring. Then we stay in Sweden until Sept / Oct sometime when it is time to return here to Spain. We are very happy with it 🤗.
03 January 2021 - 10:22
Helena says:
Sounds like a great plan! 🙂
03 January 2021 - 11:25
Johnny Friskilä says:
St Petersburg sounds like a very good plan to me. And also possible! But yes, the first half of 2021 might be a bit difficult. At least if you have to stick to recommendations and regular travel insurance. Then we will see how well the vaccine works, what the side effects are, how the virus mutates and whether Trump actually leaves the White House in a couple of weeks or not. So yes, it feels a bit early to plan. But you can do it anyway!
03 January 2021 - 11:07
Helena says:
Yes, we don't dare to hope for too much in the first half of 2021. We are following the recommendations, so we will simply have to see how it develops. Of course, there are many uncertainties. We dream and plan, and if we have to change, we change 😉.
03 January 2021 - 11:27
bmlarstravellingblog says:
We have a lot of plans for 2021, many within Sweden, but we also hope for motorhome trips to Bornholm and Germany.
We have some anniversaries to celebrate this spring so two + three hotel stays (within Sweden) are booked, at least something to look forward to and that we hope will be possible.
Then, like everyone else, we hope that the vaccine will change a lot.
03 January 2021 - 11:31
Helena says:
It sounds cosy with travel plans and hotel stays! Nice to have something to look forward to! And of course we hope that the vaccine will change a lot, even if it takes some time.
04 January 2021 - 20:54
Monica says:
How you think and plan/dream about travelling in times of corona probably has a lot to do with what phase of life and health you are in. And how much you now manage to engage in risks and continued pandemic development in these virus-weary times. We who are both 70+ and in a medical risk group and have also spent much of our lives travelling, including living abroad, naturally think completely differently than those who are still somewhere in the middle of life and experience great frustration at not being able to plan their travel life as before.
I would love to travel the well-known roads down to southern Europe again, to the beloved second home country France where I also have my daughter with a French husband and two little boys. In the middle of the burning pandemic, I see people asking each other in Swedish-French Facebook groups about the best way to drive there to avoid border controls, sudden new quarantine regulations, attestations, closed hotels and restaurants. I've been upset, angry and dismayed by this, but now I don't say a word: you instantly realise that you really don't have to deal with people's private reasons for travelling. Which are usually of the same nature as Dan Eliasson's "necessary" trip to visit his daughter in the Canary Islands. It is out of the question for me to act in such an unsolidarous way, if nothing else.
But that's my journey in my mind. But never that I would even think in any time planning about when it would be possible to carry out. Neither did my French daughter, who will probably not be able to travel to Sweden and her Swedish family this year for the second summer in a row. None of us believe in any kind of relief this year - this virus will mutate in rounds, spread in waves again and again because we all over the world are unable to stay away from each other as we must. And the vaccine jump remains to be seen how it works - already there are so many questions about availability, side effects and lack of herd immunity that I don't believe in miracles.
This can of course be seen as disappointing and sad pessimism by some. For me and many with me in a similar situation, it paradoxically feels like a relief to not be able to mortgage the future in uncertain travel thoughts. It is at home that applies for the time being. That it is then of course cozy to dream, think about and imagine the joy of being able to travel away to some dream destination, I'm sure everyone agrees!
03 January 2021 - 13:05
Helena says:
You may well be right that people think differently depending on which phase they are in, Monica. At the same time, everyone has to take responsibility and help out. However, travelling right now does not feel relevant for us either. We will stay at home until the situation changes. However, we think it is fun and inspiring to plan and dream. If we have to change our plans, we'll take it.
04 January 2021 - 20:58
Travelsis says:
Oh what a wonderful trip you have ahead of you this summer!!! Hope you get away on it now.
I don't really dare to dream yet... think Sweden this year and if it changes, I quickly switch to other experiences as I don't really want to be disappointed.
I have been to Tunisia both as a young person and also with my family as an adult, lots to look forward to there: the history, the villages, the markets, the fantastic beaches....
/ Pernilla
03 January 2021 - 13:43
Helena says:
Yes, that trip is tempting! It's hard to know for sure if it's possible, but we are planning for it, and if we have to change our minds, we will. Funny that you have nice memories from Tunisia! 🙂
04 January 2021 - 20:59
BP says:
When I read your positive and dreamy post, I could not help but think of a sign that Carita posted on her blog today: "Everything you can imagine is real". I think you and we can focus on that for 2021.
03 January 2021 - 15:40
Helena says:
How? Yes, we feel that we must dare to think ahead. If we then have to rethink, well, we'll take it then.
04 January 2021 - 21:00
Mr Bengt Casambu says:
St Petersburg is amazing. Were you going to take the motorhome or? We have visited stP a couple of times. Do you remember I wondered if you were interested in joining us on a trip to Russia a few years ago?
The first year we had to cancel for cancer surgery the second year it was covid. So now 2022 is probably the best chance to drive this long trip through Russia Ukraine. O black sea
04 January 2021 - 10:15
Helena says:
Motorhome or not, we don't know!? We have not planned so far ... Yes, we have a memory of this!!! Don't remember if we were busy? Russia is exciting! Please tell us again if you plan to go, sounds super interesting! 🙂
04 January 2021 - 21:04
Biggeros says:
My main dream right now is to travel to Sweden and meet my family. I would like nothing more than to get vaccinated. I will probably be among the last in the queue. To continue travelling with my husband is my wish but now we are taking one step at a time in the right direction. My dream trip is to go to Cairo on Safari. Hope at least you get your dreams to come true in the early future.
Happy New Year <3
04 January 2021 - 10:57
Helena says:
Happy New Year! We wish good distribution of the vaccine and that it works as intended!!! Hope you get to go on your travels!
04 January 2021 - 21:06
Eva Gyllin says:
I think in a similar way. You can always dream and plan.
During the late spring I have started to plan a bit within Sweden. If we are very lucky, we can go abroad in the autumn. Last summer and autumn we couldn't do anything at all because I was ill.
What makes me sceptical is whether it is true that you only protect yourself with the vaccine but you can still infect others. It may not be true, but I wouldn't want to have it on my conscience that I have spread the infection.
04 January 2021 - 13:41
Helena says:
Yes, you can dream and plan! I have not heard that the vaccine should only protect you and not others, sounds strange? If you don't get sick, you can't pass it on, can you? The only thing I could imagine is that you give an infected product to an uninfected person or similar, but that is a rather unrealistic scenario (and few people are infected in that way, as far as I understand). I think most people are infected by breathing, coughing, sneezing or skin contact. Note that I may have missed something, but what I have understood so far is that you should neither infect nor infect if you are vaccinated.
04 January 2021 - 21:11
Another Monica says:
No living creature has all the answers, but as far as I know, you can infect with all the flu vaccine when you have received it, no one knows how long, but a newly vaccinated person who comes home and snores a little after a few hours can infect the other unvaccinated in the family and probably equally with this / these vaccines. Then the immune system kicks in on most people who have been vaccinated and then they probably do not infect anyone else. Probably writes but is probably certainly so😌Yes, the immune system needs several weeks and certainly it is individual too, we are all unique, immunologist experienced with leading global research in my life.
04 January 2021 - 22:50
Sanna Rosell says:
I also hope we get new opportunities to go to Tunisia in 2021! Keeping all fingers and toes a press trip on Tunisian soil. 🙂
06 January 2021 - 19:31
Maggan and Göran says:
Nice that you are also planning for 2021, our motorhome is snowed in in Jämtland and just longs to get out, Spain was our goal this winter but it did not happen.
We have travelled a lot in the country and want to tell you about the Vildmarksvägen that we drove this summer, absolutely fantastic and we finished with a few days at Kolgårdens camping in Vilhelmina which is a real gem both in summer and autumn.
08 January 2021 - 22:44