Traveling during a pandemic

Traveling during a pandemic sure was an interesting experience.
Interesting in the way how different it was in the different places we were going through.

Starting from Abu Dhabi, where masks are mandatory as soon as you step outside to start with. The airport was full of markers and stickers for distance, employees that took your temperature, glass shields in front of all check-in desks, closed shops and blocked off seats - all to enforce the social distancing.

 

Onboard the Etihad flight we traveled up front, so we had plenty of space anyway, but obviously the flight was far from full. We got given Health Kits, which included gloves, sanitizer and masks, and were expected to wear the masks the whole flight.
(By the way, I had never before been on an airplane with three-point-seatbelts!)

In Frankfurt airport where we changed flights, it was really, really busy. Here as well you were asked to wear your mask in the terminal, but it was a bit harder to keep your distance as it was really crowded. A part from the face masks, it felt like a normal busy airport. 

We even bumped into some friends of us, from our time in Brunei! The Enmarks, who now live in Frankfurt, but were on their way to Göteborg as well for a weeks holiday.
Such a funny coincidence, considering we bumped into them at Landvetter once before - back in 2014!

The flight from Frankfurt to Göteborg was completely full. We had our bags full with sanitizing equipment of all sorts, so we wiped down everything around our seats; and didn't touch anything throughout the flight. Because of the circumstances they didn't serve anything onboard anyway, we were just handed bottles of water.

And arriving into Sweden - well, you would think there was no pandemic... face masks off and only recommendations on how to behave... Have to admit, made me feel slightly uncomfortable, but there you go.