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Sadly, I had to cancel my plans to fly on NY eve to Madrid via Frankfurt. After having my flights altered twice by the airline, so much so that my transit would now take me almost 48 hours for Toronto to Madrid… and having learned yesterday that my employer will not be altering the “no foreign travel permitted” until January at the earliest, and not for as long as Canada maintains an international travel advisory to avoid any “inessential“ travel...
While some workers can say that their work is essential, the refusal of my university to lift its restrictions prior to January means that I will be disappointing 4 graduate students in Granada with whom I had planned to work through the winter and spring. In essence what my university has said is that all internatioanl collaborative work has to be done virtually until the administration changes its mind about what the Canadian Travel Advisory means….
I have no idea if I will be able to walk later in the spring without trying to do research work in Granada…. That is something I could do without my employer caring. I’d have to buy my own health insurance as my work-based plan won’t cover us if we are trying to work in foreign locations while the advisory is in place. Maybe by spring I will be able to find a direct flight, or maybe I’ll just fly into LIsbon and start walking from there…
I am super bummed. My vaccinations are complete. I live somewhere with fewer than 100 cases and fewer than a handful of new cases on any given day. My sabbatical is a year overdue and I agreed last January to take it on this schedule. So I’m stuck.
I hope that this cancellation is not just a meaningless sacrifice.
I think I’ve had it in mind for at least a month now that this was a real possibility, but I had hoped that with Spain being open, that with my EU passport, that with indications being that we are getting ahead of the worst manifestations of COV-19… that I would be able to go.
Oh well…. Eventually I will get my money back. Eventually I will retire…
Buen camino all.
While some workers can say that their work is essential, the refusal of my university to lift its restrictions prior to January means that I will be disappointing 4 graduate students in Granada with whom I had planned to work through the winter and spring. In essence what my university has said is that all internatioanl collaborative work has to be done virtually until the administration changes its mind about what the Canadian Travel Advisory means….
I have no idea if I will be able to walk later in the spring without trying to do research work in Granada…. That is something I could do without my employer caring. I’d have to buy my own health insurance as my work-based plan won’t cover us if we are trying to work in foreign locations while the advisory is in place. Maybe by spring I will be able to find a direct flight, or maybe I’ll just fly into LIsbon and start walking from there…
I am super bummed. My vaccinations are complete. I live somewhere with fewer than 100 cases and fewer than a handful of new cases on any given day. My sabbatical is a year overdue and I agreed last January to take it on this schedule. So I’m stuck.
I hope that this cancellation is not just a meaningless sacrifice.
I think I’ve had it in mind for at least a month now that this was a real possibility, but I had hoped that with Spain being open, that with my EU passport, that with indications being that we are getting ahead of the worst manifestations of COV-19… that I would be able to go.
Oh well…. Eventually I will get my money back. Eventually I will retire…
Buen camino all.