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Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

July 25th - Who, What, Why, When & Where?

Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

The Independent

Places & Travel, Leisure, Society & Culture

3.6628 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The key questions you are asking me about travel in the time of coronavirus – what’s been weighing down my virtual mailbag, from travelling if you’re recovered from Covid to the chances of foreign vaccinations being recognised by the UK for the purposes of avoiding quarantine.


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0:00.0

There's a lot we're told about bladder lakes.

0:02.5

We're told it means you're getting old.

0:04.8

But it means that you have to stop doing the things that you love.

0:07.3

But it means weakness.

0:09.5

Really?

0:10.6

Tenna Discrete offers a range of pads uniquely designed to make living life within continents so much easier.

0:16.8

And to give you Tenna triple protection, offering up to 12 hours of dryness.

0:20.9

It's time to rethink bladder leaks.

0:22.8

Visit tena.com.ukuk forward slash women.

0:25.5

Always seek medical advice from your GP or pelvic health specialist.

0:35.2

Hello, it's Sunday the 25th 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.

0:46.4

Today I want to focus on the key questions you're asking me about travel in the time of coronavirus.

0:52.6

What's been weighing down my virtual mailbag this week

0:56.1

has been travelling if you've recovered from COVID to the chances of foreign vaccinations

1:02.4

being recognised by the UK for the purposes of avoiding quarantine. Of course, this podcast

1:09.0

is completely free as is my weekly travel email. You can sign up

1:14.5

at independent.com.uk forward slash newsletters. I'm lucky enough to get a lot of questions about travel

1:24.2

in the time of coronavirus. And over the past 16 months or so, they've fallen into kind of waves.

1:33.4

And most definitely, there's a couple of questions which are weighing down my virtual mailbag

1:42.4

in the sense lots and lots of concerns about them and very few apparent answers.

1:48.5

And the top one I would say this weekend is what are the chances of your vaccination being recognised by the UK

1:58.1

for the purposes of avoiding quarantine if you live abroad and you've

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