July 15th - Balearics Downgraded
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
The Balearics downgrade to amber list, while Bulgaria and Croatia get upgraded – what it means for your trip.
Malta softens its stance on the Indian variant of the AstraZeneca jab.
And I’m in Carlisle for a new exhibition, opening today.
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| 0:33.1 | Hello, it's Thursday the 15th 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. |
| 0:43.1 | Today the Balearics are downgraded to the Amber List while Bulgaria and Croatia get upgraded. |
| 0:49.4 | What does it mean for your trip? |
| 0:51.4 | Malta softens its stance on the Indian variant of the AstraZeneca Jab. |
| 0:56.1 | And I'm in Carlisle for a new exhibition opening today. |
| 1:00.7 | The big news on Wednesday, a day of head of what we were expecting, was the Transport Secretary |
| 1:06.4 | Grant Shaps, saying that the Baniarek Islands of Spain, that's Mayorka, Menorca and Ibiza, are going to |
| 1:15.1 | go back to the Amber List. Yes, just two weeks after they joined the low-risk green watch |
| 1:23.4 | list, which meant no quarantine for arrivals from those countries. They are going back as from |
| 1:29.8 | 4 a.m. on the 19th of July. Now, that won't actually make any difference to you if you're |
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