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Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

August 8th - Eurostar Revival

Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

The Independent

Places & Travel, Leisure, Society & Culture

3.6628 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

I’m at St Pancras where the Eurostar link to Paris is coming back to life.


Hotel quarantine and how to avoid it.


And correcting more official nonsense about testing to travel to the UK.


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0:00.0

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0:03.5

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0:06.9

when you buy participating packs of Cabri and Cabri biscuits.

0:10.6

So who will you take?

0:12.1

We're taking my cousin Nathan,

0:14.0

who told me scary stories at a sleepover,

0:16.6

and I still haven't forgiven him.

0:18.3

With days out at the London Dungeon, the London Eye, and more.

0:22.2

Grab your participating pack of Cabri today.

0:25.0

Visit fun.cabry.com.com.

0:26.1

UK for teas and season booking information.

0:33.5

Hello, it's Sunday, the 8th of August, and thanks for joining me for the latest on travel and destinations from the Greenlist and the travel desk of the Independent.

0:42.5

Today I'm at London-Stan-Pancras International Station where the Eurostar link to Paris is coming back to life.

0:50.7

I'll be talking about hotel quarantine and more to the point how to avoid it and correcting

0:56.2

yet more official nonsense about testing before travel to the UK.

1:02.3

London St Pancras International is, I think, the most beautiful railway station in the world.

1:09.2

I'm sitting beneath the vast canopy with natural light flooding down,

1:15.6

the Victorian brickwork looking absolutely splendid and a sense of excitement.

1:22.6

Just across from here there is a fleet of Euro-style trains. This is, of course, the London hub for the operation going from here to Paris to Amsterdam and to Brussels.

1:35.4

But for the past many months, the whole of 2021, at least, it has been a miserable time with very, very few services and very, very, very few people on them.

1:49.4

But I've been down in departures, having a look at people queuing up there. It is getting very busy indeed.

1:56.9

And that's because, of course, at 4 a.m. today, France stopped being on the controversial, to say the least, Amber Plus list.

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