Travel with Tanya

International traveling is no more a pleasure especially when covid-19 has casted an inauspicious shadow on the planet. Gone are the days when traveling was exhilarating, now it is a painstaking phenomenon. The word 'guidelines' plays a major role when it comes to taking international trips. Apart from our luggage, a file or folder containing all our vital documents has forcefully gained an entry into international trips. Now, coming straight to the point, in order to avoid any loopholes in our documentation we had prepared ourselves well ahead of our journey from Manila (The Philippines) to Mumbai (India) on Jan 30, 2021.  The documentation phase : As a spontaneous response to the dilemma in our minds for the above travel, we got our tickets booked on Emirates  (the only option available was via Dubai) for Jan 30, 2021. With the confirmed tickets in hand, a full-fledged process started for the arrangement of the documents listed below - Emigration Clearance Certificate (...

Wohoo! 2021 started well with the visit to a paradise with the finest white sand beach and a place of solace.  It is Boracay island in the Aklan province in the Philippines.   Living in the pandemic phase, there existed no plan as such but an intuition to visit the second most charming destination in the Philippines. Hence, moving forward with the hope that our intuition will be a reality in the new year, our air tickets and hotel room were booked for January 2021. Although our thoughts were heavily weighted with fear of the entrance of the new strain of coronavirus in the Philippines, we did not let it diminish our excitement. Incoming international flights from 15 countries were banned by the government initially, followed by 30 in the later period.  Domestic travel- No bar. A great relief. Time is precious and irreversible. A year had gone for a toss dealing with the waves of emotional stress on account of the pandemic. The world waited impatiently for the much ne...