With COVID-19 bringing the travel industry (and the world) to a standstill for the past few months, some countries have begun to reopen their borders. Some have stipulations about where people can visit from, and how you can enter their country, but ‘Reopen Europa’ contains all this information on an open map.
Myself and Amy had been planning an interrailing trip from Budapest to Bologna (via Zagreb, Ljubljana, and Venice), and are therefore still unsure about the logistics of cross country travel. However Italy is open and if we rearranged our entry flight from Budapest to Napoli, we could spend 2 weeks navigating through Italy (I’ll put on so much weight living on Italian food for 2 weeks).
The website is updated daily, which would let you know where you stand it terms of booking a summer European trip, and let’s you know what’s available in each country. I’ll show some examples that could potentially affect me below.
Is it too soon for countries to reopen?
That’s for each country to assess themselves, we’ve seen some countries worldwide prioritise their economy over their citizen’s health. And for the traveller’s it’s at their own discretion as nobody is forcing them to travel, but they are taking their health into their own hands and potentially infecting others. Please don’t travel if you suspect you have COVID-19, and please take necessary precautions to avoid catching/spreading it. Safe travels.