A glorious spring week with longer days of sunshine as everything starts slowly warming up, including me. As I write this I have Abba blasting in the background and I have to keep stopping to dance around the living room. The news remains up and down but I’m definitely feeling upbeat. It’s been awhile. Hello optimism.
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January is always a quiet month in the travel industry and especially so right now. The new year is proving slow to ramp up as we face the challenges of living through a pandemic. So I’m pleased that this week, invitations have started to trickle into my inbox. In addition to grocery deliveries and Zoom coffee mornings, I begin adding conferences and virtual events to my diary, and suddenly 2021 offers possibilities to connect with the world at large over the coming weeks.
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Let’s say Goodbye 2020 and Hello 2021! in style. The party has gone online and you can join in the celebrations around the globe. Get friends and family together – safely or virtually – put on your sparkly gladrags, open a bottle of bubbly, and party the night away. From Edinburgh to Dubai, Iceland to London, Nashville to Times Square, New York, and Switzerland to Sydney, there’s a party going on. Check out the details for Virtual New Year’s Eve 2020 Celebrations just published.
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Is there anyone on the planet that isn’t happily waving 2020 bye bye? I’ve never looked forward to New Year’s Eve with such anticipation. The beginning of a new year always feels like a fresh start, a clean slate, a carte blanche. There’s nothing significant about the date but New Year’s bestows permission to acknowledge lessons learned and let go, to move forward. It strikes me that 2021, however, represents the awesome opportunity for the whole of mankind. Here’s to fresh opportunities and, heavens above, how we all need that feeling of hope.
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I remember one year as a child when dad came home from work on 23rd December to announce that ‘Christmas is cancelled’. At the start of his career, as a textile chemist in the fashion industry in the sixties, a promised bonus wasn’t forthcoming or something similar. Four little glum faces (later to become five) reflected the disappointment that I can recall even now. Determined to make the best of things, on Christmas Eve we went exploring the countryside with mum to gather greenery and a branch to make our own ‘tree’. It was a straggly thing we festooned with fairy lights and a few ornaments.
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Well, it’s been quite a week. Pandemic numbers have gone practically stratospheric, the world has been holding its breath awaiting the outcome of the US Presidential elections, and in England we’ve gone into #Lockdown2. History in the making. Today is Remembrance Sunday in the UK and the traditional two minutes’ silence felt particularly poignant this year. I’m feeling reflective.
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