Between sips: ‘Revenge tourism’ and the travel conundrum

Recently, I had a few months of travel which were a harken back to pre-Covid times. While it felt good to feel that familiar excitement about flying to ‘anywhere but within the motherland’, a lot of it was starkly different, serving as a grim reminder of the looming threat of a pandemic that still somewhat surrounds us.

Everything feels like an alternate reality, a grim one at that. Fewer counters being manned, many shops and eateries…