{"id":2823,"date":"2021-01-03T15:36:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T15:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toonsarah-travels.blog\/staging\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2021-03-18T11:30:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T11:30:01","slug":"2020-my-pandemic-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toonsarah-travels.blog\/staging\/2020-my-pandemic-year-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"2020: my (pandemic) year in review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The year that has just past will remain long in all our memories, no doubt, and not for the best of reasons. A year ago the new coronavirus was just seeping into our consciousnesses and we had no idea how it would turn our lives upside down. We certainly know that now!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first Lens-Artist challenge of 2021 we are invited to share favourite photos from last year. Like Tina in setting us the challenge<\/a>, I\u2019ve chosen to share some images that tell my 2020 story \u2013 favourites from each month rather than my overall favourites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

January<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Walking through our local park on a frosty morning I paused to take a few photos. I had no idea how many walks I would end up taking in this park during the course of the year; no idea that many of my plans for the year would come to nothing; no idea of the storm that was about to hit us all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Frosty
Lammas Park in January<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
February<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

At the start of February we were off on what we thought at the time would be the first of several trips abroad this year; it turned out to be our only one. We toured Cambodia, Laos<\/a> and Vietnam<\/a> as the pandemic started to take its hold it that region, but fortunately before things got bad enough to impact on our trip. We had a wonderful time but came home at the end of the month to a country just starting to realise that COVID would affect us too.<\/p>\n\n\n