Welcome to the Sheel that's team podcast with me Charlotte Collins this week. I'm joined by Heather Steele and Lou half. Hi,

Hi, hi, hi, 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 did.

But I thought it was overdo a little catch up.

How are you going?

Good. You just come back from weeks on late, nine days on day?

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 me all quite often on the

Sunday night and nearly always got home at about 3 o'clock in the morning because flights were late by hours and hours

and we couldn't believe it we got in last night at 10 p.m. which was so civilized and made a nice change to our yeah the years of delays so so yeah feeling incredibly

grateful to have to have seen the sea and seen some.

And what was it like when you were there?

Were that, was it masked?

Did it feel very different to usual?

So we were in the Yorker, so it was,

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