There are people who think travel will open up soon. I think there's a better chance of all of us making a snake cake.
The travel writer jury's out on travel. Yes, you can travel, but should you travel? FODORS.com took up the question this past week and let us know that there are countries that have had zero COVID cases.
Fodor says: "The Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. North Korea and Turkmenistan were also on the list with caveats that both countries are known to be secretive."
That's most helpful to consider travelling to countries that are secretive.
And what about this tourist news? Would you travel to India right now to see the Taj Mahal? The Taj Mahal, closed since March, is set to reopen on September 21, despite India having the world’s highest numbers of daily new COVID cases.
Book a hotel in Japan now? The International Olympic Committee announced September 7 that the Tokyo Olympics, postponed to summer 2021, will go ahead regardless of the state of the pandemic.
I suggest we return to our kitchens instead to make a Slinky the Snake Cake. We won't need a test or insurance.
There are lots of snake cakes. I see posts since 2016, so they've been around for a while. That explains the abundance and variety: some are life-size pythons extending the entire length of the table. There's a python cake in the grass. Cobras rising up cakes, snakes making their way up tiers of cakes. In comparison frog and slug cakes are cute and appear more edible. That excludes the Jabba the Hutt Cake.
To indicate a slug has visited your cake? There are slime cakes. These have cups of slime above the cake, pouring the slime icing over the cake.
Our picture today: swans on the shore of Lake Ontario! Makes me think about the Whistling Swans who will be flying south soon.
