Mick and Ruth
LIFE MEMBER
We are due to leave for Spain on the 28th November until March. Like the rest of the country I have been shocked at images seen on social media and TV about the scale of the disaster that has hit the country. We have places booked from Calpe along the coast and inland to Cadiz and back again.
This morning on the Spain motorhome Facebook page they are asking for volunteers to meet and go and collect dead animals as there are thousands and health implications and smell are self explanatory, no children allowed only 18 plus as obviously there may be more than animal corpses.
I'm now unsure whether we go, I have done body recovery/ mass casualty scenes so its not that which shocks me, I am questioning myself is it right to be sat a few miles away on a deck chair enjoying a holiday in an area people, their lives and their homes have been decimated?
I know we will be supporting the community as we eat out a lot, buy local produce and always pay for sites/stopovers etc. and maybe it will bring a bit of normality back into the areas that have been effected.
I can quite easily swing a left when we get off the tunnel and head down through Italy and Greece as we are flexible. (the sites booked can keep the small deposit we've paid if they have requested one)
We are going to monitor it over the next few weeks and will decide a few days before we leave is it left or right once out of the tunnel.
Its not a moral high ground issue, for me its what is best for the communities in the areas? do we leave them for a few months to grieve and repair? Do they need us there re spending power? I certainly don't want to be bumbling round in a motorhome giving the appearance of not a care in the world.
I just thought I would throw this out here and see if anyone else thinking the same?
This morning on the Spain motorhome Facebook page they are asking for volunteers to meet and go and collect dead animals as there are thousands and health implications and smell are self explanatory, no children allowed only 18 plus as obviously there may be more than animal corpses.
I'm now unsure whether we go, I have done body recovery/ mass casualty scenes so its not that which shocks me, I am questioning myself is it right to be sat a few miles away on a deck chair enjoying a holiday in an area people, their lives and their homes have been decimated?
I know we will be supporting the community as we eat out a lot, buy local produce and always pay for sites/stopovers etc. and maybe it will bring a bit of normality back into the areas that have been effected.
I can quite easily swing a left when we get off the tunnel and head down through Italy and Greece as we are flexible. (the sites booked can keep the small deposit we've paid if they have requested one)
We are going to monitor it over the next few weeks and will decide a few days before we leave is it left or right once out of the tunnel.
Its not a moral high ground issue, for me its what is best for the communities in the areas? do we leave them for a few months to grieve and repair? Do they need us there re spending power? I certainly don't want to be bumbling round in a motorhome giving the appearance of not a care in the world.
I just thought I would throw this out here and see if anyone else thinking the same?
