Welcome to the Shillax team podcast with me, Charlotte Collins.

This week I'm joined by Heather Steele and Lou Haft. Hi, both.

Hi.

Hello.

I feel like this is a long time since we've kind of all been together in a very long time.

Well, I know you particularly enjoy the opportunity for a catch-up with Heather, and I do.

But I thought it was, overdue a little catch-up.

How are you doing?

Good. You just come back from weeks holiday, nine days on lay?

I have, yeah, nine nights, nine nights.

I think the last time I did a podcast, I was saying that I was desperately hoping to get there. So I got there. I did. And how was the airport and like that sort of drama? You know what? It was honestly, when I say it's easy, like it was difficult in the sense that there's a lot of admin to do, but actually as soon as you've kind of done all of that, it was fine. As long as you've done

it all correctly, it was fine. So there's quite a lot of testing and forms and making sure you've

printed the right QR code and kind of all of that stuff. But once that is done, then yeah,

it was the airports were quieter than, you know, they would normally be in August for obvious

reasons. So both ends were pretty seamless.

I used to fly back from New York quite often on a Sunday night and nearly always got

home at about 3 o'clock in the morning because flights were delayed by hours and hours.

And we couldn't believe that we got in last night at 10pm, which was so civilised and made

a nice change to our, yeah, the years of delays.

So, so yeah, feeling, the years of delays.

So, yeah, feeling incredibly grateful to have seen the sea and seen some signs. And what was it like when you were there? Was it masks? Did it feel very different to usual? Yeah. So we were in New Yorker. So it was, and we actually, we managed to get there last summer as well. And it was pretty much the same. so masks inside.

Actually, you know, last year we had, it was pretty much the same so masks inside actually

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