Thanks for posting this, Mindy. I am in Montenegro now and have a flight back to San Diego on December 13 from London. I have to leave Montenegro next week, so I am going to Vienna. When I booked, things were not so bad in Austria but they are now. After Vienna I am going to London for eleven days before my flight. I look EVERY SINGLE DAY to make sure I can get into both countries. Today is the day the UK should announce if any countries will go back on their red list, so after today I will rest a little easier as the next announcement would be after I arrive there.
My reason for going to Vienna is I want to see the Christmas markets, and they have some new rules that are ambiguous on their websites that made me worry I would have to be vaccinated AND get a PCR test to go into a market. I wrote to the tourist board and they assured me this test is only for unvaccinated. When I get to the UK I have to take a day two antigen test. I have never had to take a test and am so worried it will be positive - this part is exhausting. I am alone virtually all the time these days so I am not sure why I am so worried! But I need to get back to San Diego, this is fo sho.
I do not believe borders will shut again in the spring but it will be the tests coming and going that will be a worry for people that can't spend an unplanned two weeks if they happen to test positive.