July 29th - Insights on the summer travel experience

Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

The Independent

Places & Travel, Leisure, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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I’m speaking to you from gate B 14 at Naples International Airport in Italy and taking you through my experience of travelling through Italian airports this week.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the final independent travel podcast of the week.
0:06.6	And indeed, yes, of July. What a month it has been.
0:10.6	Coming to you from Naples International Airport, which on Fridays, changeover day for lots and lots of holiday companies here is a complete zoo.
0:21.6	Actually very well run complete zoo and just about coping since this is as busy as it gets.
0:31.6	I'd say hats off to the excellent staff and keeping it all going.
0:35.6	Security cues, passport cues, not too long um what the tedious
0:40.3	thing is is that the british airways flight is an hour late or so nobody quite knows why and unlike
0:47.4	the easy jet and rhine air flights which go direct from the gates at the terminals this one requires
0:53.3	a bus so pay more get less i think is the gates at the terminal, this one requires a bus, so pay more, get less, I think is the order of the day.
0:59.3	But I just wanted to talk through the experience that I have had this week in terms of all sorts of things.
1:08.5	Since I touched down in Rome and talked to you on Tuesday,
1:13.4	as an EasyJet Airbus A320 gracefully takes to the skies.
1:18.8	So, mask wearing, I thought Italy might well be quite strict.
1:24.4	Now, the only episode of mask wearing, interesting, there was supposed to be one on the plane coming over, an Iberia plane.
1:32.3	Not that the UK or Italy mandated it, but Iberia did, but they kind of, because they were doing the flying for British airways, they'd quietly forgotten about it.
1:42.4	Of the mask wearing requirements, it was only on
1:47.1	local buses from Sorrento across the mountains to Positano on the Amalfi Coast and back, where
1:55.8	mask wearing was required and indeed rigidly enforced if you didn't have a mask on you
2:02.4	weren't getting on the bus in the first place apart from that no signs of them well a few
2:08.3	signs of them lots of people for instance working here at the airport wearing them but I sort of
2:12.6	sense that's either because theoretically they've got to or it's because they don't want to get infected by the likes of you and me and who can frankly blame them.
2:24.3	Post-COVID is very, very much here in Italy.
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