René Junge

Summary

The article discusses the author's decision to forgo a Mediterranean holiday due to the coronavirus pandemic and instead invest in beautifying their home with new garden furniture and flowers.

Abstract

Due to the coronavirus pandemic,

This Year We Have Flowers, Instead Of Holidays By The Sea

In two weeks, we wanted to go to the Mediterranean. But there will be no summer holidays in Europe this year.

German people like to spend their summer holidays in Spain, Italy, southern France or Greece. But in 2020, the corona pandemic rages in all popular holiday countries. There are travel warnings for all of Europe.

We already canceled our holiday in March. Instead, we will now travel at the end of 2021. By then, my wife and I hope the situation will be stable again and travel abroad will be possible again.

But at least the meteorologists predict a hot summer for Germany. If it really does happen, we might not miss the Mediterranean too much.

So this year we have money left over, which we would have spent on a trip. Of course, we save most of the money for next year’s journey, but we invest a little bit to have it comfortable at home this year.

We have a ground floor apartment with a terrace. Since we will probably spend the summer mainly on our patio, we decided to make it as pretty as possible.

Last week we bought new garden chairs for the first time. The old ones have not been very pretty for some time now, but so far, it hasn’t been that important to us. Now we have four new, comfortable chairs. We also have two small footstools, so we can put our legs up while watching the sunset and drinking gin and tonic.

But furniture alone does not create a real atmosphere, of course. That’s why we bought a few extra flower pots and lots of flowers.

While I’m sitting here writing this article, my wife is busy on the terrace planting the new flowers and herbs we also bought.

We could have been annoyed for weeks about the fact that our long-awaited holiday had to be canceled. But what good would that have done us?

There’s no point in getting depressed by circumstances beyond our control.

Summer is coming, whether we can travel or not. There’ll be hot days, with or without Corona. We can meet with friends on our terrace and have a barbecue, as long as there are not too many people at once.

All in all, this summer will undoubtedly be more contemplative and intimate than a typical summer. But together with my wife, I will be able to enjoy it.

I am looking forward to sitting in the evening sun with my wife in a few hours and watching the new blossoms.

Have your plans for this summer changed too? Did you want to travel and now you have to stay at home? How do you deal with that?

I would be happy if you could tell me something about it in the commentaries.

René Junge a published author writing on ILLUMINATION.

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