Spaiin (Update March 19, 2020)

Update  March 19, 2020

With some luck we should be on the way back to Canada on or around April 2nd.  I woke up early yesterday morning and found an Air Transat flight that had a few empty seats,  Malaga to Montreal to Vancouver, and made a booking.

A few hours after making the booking we saw a report in the online Globe & Mail that Air Transat was restricting their intentional flights and that they would operate for only the next two weeks.  We managed to get through on their phone line and after a long wait, the explanation was positive.
We were told that they are shutting down all their outbound flights and concentrating their effort on getting Canadians back to Canada. We were assured that our flight would operate but not necessarily on April 2nd.  We have been directed to a web page for updates to the flight schedule

Luckily we have a friend here in town that has offered to take us to the airport. Public transportation is sketchy and on top of all of this, Spain has just announced that all hotels must close by March 24th.

When we get to Vancouver,  we will rent a car, that we can drop off at the Kelowna airport, pick up our car and drive to Kaslo. We will have to quarantine ourselves for at least 14 days.

This is quite the adventure but not the one we expected.

In this photo we were getting ready to go for a bike ride. 

This was only ride we managed get in before the lock down was implemented.