
Today, 7th May, you can get to admire and photograph the last Super Flower Moon of the year - 2020. This is the 4th super moon of the year since February. Not just that, it is also the longest super moon that will be visible this season. It has been visible from 5th May and will be in its full luminous form till early morning of 8th May. A super moon is 14 percent larger and 30% brighter than the full moon we usually happen. This happens when the moon is closest to earth, in its orbit. With the lockdown all travel has been banned and we cannot go out. But that has led to huge dip in the levels of air pollution making skies clearer than ever before. So we can enjoy some beautiful sights like never before from our roofs and balconies. Capture some great photographs as happy memories of these tough times.
The lockdown has extended yet again and to us restless souls it is feeling like forever. A while ago, I shared with an article on travel movies to hep you with wanderlust, and this time I am back with a short list of books that would take you on a trip to your favourite destination within the comforts of your room and even change the way you look at travelling. Giving you new insight about destinations or the journey to these destinations.Whenever someone asks me why I enjoy reading so much, I want to sit them down and make them read "The Bet" by Anton Chekhov, where in the last two pages is the letter of the young lawyer explaining how through the books, the banker gave him, he never felt like he was locked in a room for years. How those books took him to different places, made him fall in love and made him realise that the world is a lot more than the materialistic things we always desire for. On the same note, I bring to you a list of books that would take you on little adventures of their own. If the lawyer could survive in a room alone with books for fifteen years, we can too for a few weeks, right?
Domestic flight may resume in India from the first week of June. The senior aviation officials say that the airlines will start booking tickets 10 days before the services resume. The flights have been grounded since March 25 due to the nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19.
The Italian Island, Sicily, is working on reviving the tourism post-coronavirus. Sicily announces that it would cover half the air ticket fares and one third of the lodging prices for the travellers wanting to visit the island. It is will also offer free tickets to many of its museums and archaeological sites. Sicily has lost over €1 billion in tourism related revenue, ever since the lockdown was enforced here on March 10. The scheme might cost the island around €50 million, it hopes that the scheme would be able to attract a large number of tourists once the lockdown is lifted.
Ministers of the Defence Ministry, under Rajnath Singh, in a recent meeting, have suggested resuming the functioning of domestic flights in coronavirus free areas after the lockdown is lifted. However, according to the news, the Home Ministry and Civil Aviation Minister will take the final call after assessing the situation in the country, and the status of spread of COVID-19 in states.