Flying during Covid : Testing, Costs and Complications

today is a big day we are on our way to get our kobe tests and if successful we are on our way on our journey if it's not successful we actually haven't even got anywhere to stay and sarah's pretty nervous about having this kovid test it's the first time you've really gone through this i think isn't it so that's the first thing second thing is what we're going to do today is show you our accommodation that we've been here in san miguel de allende and believe me this accommodation is a bit special so are we leaving mexico tomorrow we don't know stick around to the end and you'll find out you can see from the long shadows this walk was very early in the morning and we're not used to being up so early but we wanted to get our test results as quickly as possible so we can make our onward travel plans sam miguel looks beautiful any time of day but first thing in the morning it has an almost magical look to it we forgot to mention in the intro of this video that we'll also be sharing our cost of living in san miguel de allende so if you want to know what an average cost to live here the way we did we share that information at the end of this video short walk across town and we've arrived at the very posh rosewood hotel they're laying on the kobe tests here so sarah how are you feeling um a little bit nervous i just don't know if it hurts or not she's been very subdued this whole walk she's not spoken a word she's very nervous i had this test for the first time the day that i bust my shoulder and was in a hospital and i was in so much pain with that my best advice to anyone is if you're worried about kobe test bust your shoulder first you don't even think about the cobia test you're thinking more about the morphine anyway sarah let's head on in all done how was that for you it was so yeah if that's it fine it was over in two seconds it was good the most painful bit for me was filling in the form and trying to find united kingdom i don't know what that is in spanish so we had to yeah use translation tools to work out what country we come from but the test itself is a doddle it's like two seconds there's something i said we're going to find out in an hour so we're now going to go and grab some breakfast and then hopefully find out the result but we're going to show you our accommodation so come on with us and who should this be hello it's sarah come on in i'm going to give you a little tour around our gaffe and this is it so we're really impressed with this this is the kitchen so we've got a lovely amount of space here and a proper oven in here got a kettle got something to make some nice smoothies in the morning teapot and we've got drinking water here and normal water here and a nice big fridge down here with freezer above you think where's the microwave okay about that we've got that cupboard it's in here so we've got the microwave got everything we need in there and then the dining room where they've thought of literally everything so they've got a high chair here knowing sarah was coming she's not the tallest she's going to find that wonderful thing beautiful art on the wall look at that sofa looking forward to stretching out on there and watching a bit of netflix we've got a tv here we got wi-fi we've got netflix and all that kind of good stuff as well a chair to just sit and contemplate your day so if i go upstairs let's see what we have up here i think you're gonna be a bit impressed so we come up here around the stairs and we have got i don't know if the scale of this could ever come across on camera but this is that bed we've got the camera on wide setting that bed is super wide that's uh that's very very big i think we would call that in the uk um bedside lights and a little place to maybe edit videos but i would say only if they're very small videos because very small smaller desk and out here we've got a seating area here a little um lounger another table and chair there and here we've got the uh the things that go on the chairs so that's lovely and look at that for an outlook that beautiful beautiful tree right there absolutely gorgeous tv up here and we've also got a bit of ac up there as well which is good we have more art which is good somewhere to put all of our clobber in here and i'm not going to show you that's what you're saying and through here is the bathroom again scale i'm not sure if you can get the scale because that is huge now if you're having a shower you go you've got to turn the shower on and it takes you about five minutes to walk all the way from there over to where the shower head is here so what do you think what do you think of this it's gorgeous isn't it we're very pleased we've been in here now for all of 10 minutes long enough for me to work out how the wi-fi works and how the ac works and how the tv works all the key things while sarah's been doing tedious stuff downstairs in the kitchen know what's been going on down there but i've got all the critical stuff done we've got wi-fi we've got tv so that's it that is our gaff here here in san miguel de allende we've made it back and we're hoping to go for breakfast in the place opposite where we're staying i think it's closed so we're going for plan b our favorite place is closed for refurbishment literally opposite our apartment so plan b is a place that specializes in cinnamon rolls so much so it's called rollers because what they do is roll us cinnamon rolls special delivery they've just arrived we got in here and there are no rawness here [Music] but um we've just ordered breakfast we're going to take a couple of rollers to eat when we get home because you know when you need that mid-afternoon snack that's what it will be wow so we had the test yesterday the test was in that car park at the hotel we were told by friends it's going to take about 10 minutes to get your results we had the test then what do we do we waited and then we waited then what waited some more yeah so we thought okay we'll come out of here we'll be walking up the road our email will ping hey we got the results didn't happen so we walked and walked we went and had those lovely rollers i was thinking oh there's a problem with the uh email on my phone i'll have a look on my laptop nothing so i said to sarah come on get your hat and coat on we're gonna have to walk back to our hotel something's gone wrong and it pinged that's a nerve-wracking moment because at that point you're thinking are we moving on or are we screwed so sarah tell him are we moving on or are we screwed we are moving on yes we're on our negative negative we're on our way to another country so very quickly for us this is going to take a long time we're not getting to out of the country for another 24 hours yeah or more yeah we're doing it nice and slow but yeah it's going to be 24 hours so this is 24 hours of travel that we're going to crawl into about a minute and a half so enjoy the trip and you'll find out where we're going just left sarah with all the baggage in the in the bus station you know the shop in the bus station it's got a big drink section every drink is with sugar there's no diet drinks in there so i'm going to pop out and see if i can find some diet drink because we're going to be on a bus to mexico city for nearly five hours the water's nice but fancy something else as well you know so let's see what else there is there um when we get to mexico city we've got so much luggage los santos era on the way to the bus station here in san miguel we got to get rid of some of this stuff we can't carry this it's too much but when we get to mexico city we gotta get across the city with a load of luggage from the bus station to the airport we're staying in a hotel at the airport tonight so we'll see how that goes because whenever we get an uber the cows are too small to take the amount of luggage we got so we'll see let's see if i can find something to drink that's not gonna make me fatter than i already am i had a little tip from my brother yesterday actually he said don't shoot any video whilst wearing a bag across here because it makes my man boobs look too big my man boobs are smaller than they've been in a long time it's just a bag so if you're watching this thinking god neil's brother he's on he's on the ball there my man boobs aren't really that bad very frustrating that was a fail i managed to get some water but first shop i've come to everything has got excessive sugar in so i've had to relent and i've got limonada hey lemon and nada this mineral so sparkling lemonade water or something like that anyway it'd be nice but i wish i could have done something to help me with these man boots of mine right so we're here let me uh get back to sarah in the bus station i'm thinking i'm guessing that our trip to mexico city will be on one of these buses here it's very difficult to tell in fact because although the bus system in mexico is incredibly good they don't actually tell you where to get on so you've got you've got all these buses down here and just got kind of just got to take a flyer and have a guess it will be easier if we can speak spanish we can't that's our fault but i reckon it's on one of these two we've arrived in mexico city the journey from san miguel de allende to mexico city was about four and a half hours went quite quickly nice journey as we got to mexico city the heavens opened and we arrived in thunder and lightning and floods so managed to get off the bus and walk to the uber pickup crossed rivers in the street to get to the uber loaded up and then about 30 minutes later we've arrived at our airport hotel so nice hotel we're all checked in we've walked across to the departures just so we can check for the morning and we're just having our dinner at a place called wings which is okay we've got a beer and we've got burgers on the way so all good we are then going to uh head back over to the hotel get an early night we've got to be up about 4 30 in the morning so not necessarily looking forward to that but uh we'll be on our way in the morning well let's not put any finer point on this we've got too much stuff we've got look at all that look at it all crazy the bit that makes no sense to me and we've just had a discussion about it and i don't think we've come to a conclusion is since we left the uk we've bought nothing we've not been well hang on no i did i bought some trainers you bought a pair of trousers yeah but the trainers i bought i threw a pair of trainers out um so the trousers i bought for a pair of jeans so and the trousers yeah less than the jets i don't get it so other than that we've bought absolutely nothing and now these two these two cases here i keep weighing them and they're just 25 kilos slightly over 25 kilos when we flew out from the uk we had a limit of 23 kilos the flight today we've got a limit at 25 so so hopefully we'll be okay but this is frustrating so if you're looking at uh the concept of slow travel and how to do it well we know we're not the people to follow but we don't say that no but we will be the people because some of that well a lot of that is going we're gonna we're gonna jettison and we'll show you on a video when we do it we'll go through everything in a with a fine-tooth comb and get rid of stuff we don't need it's um it's getting frustrating anyway anyway we had no two showers today yeah yeah so we would have shown you us packing but it was really warm in here and we and we packed um naked and no one no one wants to see that even you didn't want to see it did you but she she's got no choice it's quite a small bedroom so so i thought it's best not do that um so we've packed we were upper just before 5 a.m yeah and we've spent the last that's the thing it's taken us 40 minutes to just juggle stuff around and it's it's just six okay yeah we need to go so we need to go we're gonna go check in for a flight and head off we you probably won't see us again until we get to the other end to be honest because uh we're gonna be rushing around a little bit so anything we heard off sarah i need to say we've loved mexico amazing place yeah and we'll be back for sure there's places that we haven't gone to that we want to go to so we will be back we've had a great time yeah mexico is incredible the mexican people are equally incredible uh there's more than one mexican that we can name who when we said to them right we're moving on broke down in tears you know in the uk it's when we arrive at places people break down in tears so so it's just quite quite um it shows what loving people um their heart there are in this amazing country right come on can't talk [Music] welcome to las vegas we made it we made it it was a bit touch and go if i'm honest but we did actually achieve it [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 17min 19sec (1039 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 25 2021