2020, you can do one!

This is as close as we got to Christmas with Charlie. She came back from Portugal more than a week ago and has been isolating in the annexe of a friend's mum's house nearby. 

Today, due to the covid test results not arriving back in time, she left there and took up residence in our camper van! While setting up home until the covid report came back we started hearing about borders being closed across Europe, and she decided it was better to go now than not be able to go at all.

Huge browse-fest of the available travel options. She and Rory finally decided they couldn't get back to Lisbon but they could get to Madeira (how romantic) and thence back to Lisbon later, being already in the Portuguese landscape.*

This evening, we celebrated Yule in the garage, a little early with some Portuguese tawny port and a round robin of catch up videoconference calls. It would have gone very well if Janet hadn't tipped a glass of Prosecco over my camera!

*subject to further chaotic changes.