Hello and welcome to Passports Please. This is the podcast that helps you hack your holidays whether you are the packer or the slacker. I'm Chelsea and every week I'll be joined by my travel companion, James.

Hello. Chelsea is a holiday expert, whereas I just love a holiday. Yeah, you do. And whether you already know and follow what I do online as holiday expert, or you've just stumbled across this for the first time, welcome on in because we're going to be chatting about holiday hacks for everything from overnight buses to first class flights. Yes. So, if you're in need of advice, travel tips, or even have some of your own, then we'd love to hear from you.

Please send them in by sliding into our DMs on socials at Passports Please Pod or at hellopassport pleasepod.com.

And we'll help you up your holiday game by doing all the hard work for you.

Hello, James. Hello James.

Hello, Chelsea.

Now, I have to apologise to you this week. Yes, you do.

Where do we start?

Well, a long list.

There is a long list, but in particular, a headline has gone up in the last week.

Oh, yeah.

From a very, very popular website.

Yeah, Babe Station.

It does.

It's not Baby Station, but perhaps not too far off what I'm about to say.

It does implicate you slightly.

Yes.

This happened on a Sunday night.

It does.

But shall I for everybody set the scene? Yes, please. What do you want to say What is from first? Well, yeah, I'm going to tell you now. Okay. So I write a monthly column for Metro. Okay. It's about travel things, my experiences, things like that. And basically what happens is either I pitch an idea or the team messages me and says, hello, we'd like

you to talk about this topic. So that's what happened this time. They said, we'd like you to do

an article about fuel shortages and how that's going to impact how much holidays cost.

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