Travelling to Barbados at the time of Corona is a most interesting experience. Barbados has one of the best corona protocols for travel that I have experienced.  You actually need a double negative corona test before you can ‘put foot’ in the country. You need a NEGATIVE corona test before you arrive. Then, on arrival, you are placed in quarantine until the second Corona test turns up negative.  In the meantime, all of your favourite hotels, including the famous Sandy Lane, are approved Corona hotels.

In fact, the Barbados corona protocols are far superior to even those in Europe. And this is one of the advantages of an island. An island can literally control who leaves and who enters the country.  In Europe and the USA, borders are porous; there are no controls if you move from one European country to the next and there are no controls if you move from one state to the next. This is even more complicated when each state employs different protocols. This can be confusing at best.  So, one small island, with one single protocol makes for transparency and ease of implementation.  It makes you feel safer. 

These protocols go beyond hotels, bars and restaurants.  To enter every single establishment in Barbados, it is mandatory to wear a mask AND you have to hands sanitized. 

Further, if you happen to use a trolley or basket, there is staff on hand to immediately disinfect.  This disinfection procedure does not even happen in Berlin, unless you do it yourself. 

For all of these reasons, and more, I do feel very safe and comfortable holidaying in Barbados. I do feel guilty though as most of my colleagues and friends still cannot go to a restaurant or bar or travel around their own country, have their hair cut, or indulge in a massage.  But I can tell you, the warm weather, the blue skies, the sunshine, the beautiful beaches, and amazing people of Barbados, are altogether therapeutic.