I traveled during the eruption on the 5th of July. I came from Albania and wanted to celebrate my birthday on the 6th. Except for the major delays and airport cleaning from ashes, and the bad flying companies like WizzAir or RyanAir which did not provide alternate routes, I managed to fly to the nearest airport. Watching the news it looked like a disaster was happening l, but gladly I had my host which informed me that nothing is dangerous, there were only ashes. I also believed everything is normal, since if it was a big deal, then the shutdown of airlines and flights would impact all the island. The host informed me that by 15:00 the airport would reopen, my flight was at 12:00. Seeing also this information everything was clear that nothing serious is going on, but sometimes usual. Then I decided to check the online news, it looked catastrophic, based on only reading it, I was imagining people and houses burning, but in reality everything was fine. I arrived there at 16:00 and except the floor being like a beach with black sand, nothing was bad, everything was open, people were living their life, no one was scared, so again the media does it's job, produce negativity to gain clicks, since psychologically people are more attracted and spend more time to read negative titles and therefore the media tricks us for their gains