Hello, it's Saturday the 10th of July and thanks for joining me for the latest on travel

and destinations from the Green List and the travel desk of the Independent. Today, just

started quarantining from an Amberlist country. Keep going. Maltors, vaccine, surprise and it's not

a welcome one. And Whizair has dropped its UK domestic flights before

they've even started of course this podcast is completely free as is my weekly travel email

you can sign up at independent.co.uk forward slash newsletters. You don't need me to tell you that the world is opening up for people who are residents of the UK and who have been doubly jabbed by the NHS.

From 4am on the 19th of July, we will be able to arrive from Amberlist countries, which

includes France, mainland Spain, Italy, Croatia, Greece and many other favourites without having

to quarantine. But there are people who are arriving back in the UK this weekend who will

be quarantining when that time rolls around 4am on the 19th of July. So can they stop quarantining

on the basis that it has now been deemed safe if they have been doubly jabbed?

Well, no, I'm afraid it is not the case. It's like a mastermind question.

They've started, so they have to continue.

The only ways out of quarantine are to complete the course after 10 days.

If you're in England, then you can test to release after five days.

And if you pay for another test, you will be able to get out of that.

You'll still need to do the day eight PCR test. Nobody

said this was going to be easy. And you can leave the country again. So actually, if you were

quarantining, quite a smart thing to do might be to leave the country, just nip across to France

and back if they will let you in or even

stay on a ferry there and then resume again. But there is no way that you can simply stop.

And I'm afraid, well, if anybody does, it's possibly a hangover from a year ago today when the whole blanket quarantine,

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