Well, isn’t this the worst Spring Break ever (except for the last one)?
No travel. Dining out … outside. Watching for anyone sneaking into your bubble.
On the upside, you can watch the numbers of people vaccinated go up each day. Hopefully no other numbers follow the same trajectory.
And for the second year, you’ll be able to do nothing or next to nothing … guilt-free.
Travel
If your travel plans vanished faster than your students, there are alternatives. And you can zip off to any destination you want. Oh, the places you’ll go.
There’s Roads and Kingdoms, where you can see the culture of Cuba or find all you need to know about featured cities that you’ll actually be able to visit someday. No, really.
Melting Butter brings you food, culture and fashion from around the globe. And those great restaurants will be open again.
Other day (Hour? Minute?) trips you might want to take: National Geographic.
Libris Stories, a collection of sites that provide visual stories of a wide-range of locations that aren’t your living room.
Food
Open Table, featuring some 400,000 restaurants you’ll eventually want to visit. Includes Manitoba restaurants near you.
If you’re growing weary of cooking every night, there still are some outside sources available. Peg City Grub has been trying to keep a running tally of what restaurants are open, which deliver and who now offers takeout.
Culture
Virtual tours abound for some of the world’s greatest museums. No lineups. No tickets. And you can’t touch anything if you were there, anyway.
From the Vatican to the British Museum to Musée d’Orsay in Paris The Guardian newspaper has rounded up the 10 best virtual tours of famous museums and galleries across the globe.
Closer to home you can visit Qaumajug, the Inuit Art Gallery in the Winnipeg Art Gallery.
Or there’s always the zoo and Assiniboine Park. You can take in a preview of the new Diversity Garden.
The Canadian Museum For Human Rights has a number of online options, including a virtual tour.
You can go to On This Spot and view historic Manitoba photographs and, through the use of a sliding tool, see what those locations look like today.
Assortment
Travel Manitoba has a continual list of things to do during these times.
Whatever occupies the time ahead, there is always the option of a book, or 18.