PANDEMIC SITTING ACROSS EUROPE by Jenni Flett It’s morning and a message pings into our inbox. "I'm sorry, but we don't think we'll be able to travel anymore, so we, unfortunately, have to cancel the sit." In the afternoon, another message comes through - the same news. Our next two house sits, both only just arranged a few weeks prior, are gone. We're only three weeks away from finishing our long-term summer sit in Bulgaria, and we have nowhere to go. One day of travel restriction announcements from various governments across Europe dismantle our plans. We frantically set up search alerts and start applying. Fortunately, within a week we have our first rescheduled sit setup in Switzerland. All we have to rely on is Switzerland keeping Bulgaria off their quarantine list.
New plans come into fruition The last three weeks consist of early mornings and late nights, checking alerts and various sites for sits within Germany, Switzerland and Italy. Countries might be adding more and more
