Since our very strict lockdown,curfew and ban on incoming flights from march to June, life has been back to normal here for the last few months. No cases reported outside the govt quarantine facilities (for Thais returning home, most flights are still banned and incoming tourists are still absolutely banned) and no deaths for months. We still temp check and log in absolutely everywhere and masks are still mandatory everywhere but apart from that, life is normal.

I don't exactly believe its quite so Covid free as there is no testing but we do feel safe and cosseted here and people are being quite sensible.

The downside for people like me is that although I can leave and come back as I'm married to a Thai, the special flights, insurance and mandatory 14-day stint in government-approved quarantine hotel at a cost of 1000euros up in which you can't even leave your room is prohibitive both in cost and time so I will just have to keep waiting. Missing friends and family though, especially as this will be another Christmas I will miss back home!

Swings and roundabouts I guess!

And in Romania? Still suffering badly like other parts of Europe?