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Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

June 22nd - More Vaccines Less Travel

Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

The Independent

Places & Travel, Leisure, Society & Culture

3.6628 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

The strange tale of vaccine contraction: the more British people are jabbed, the less travel there is.


Will Matt Hancock ease quarantine?


And Indiana Wants Me, but Cornwall Doesn’t Necessarily


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0:00.0

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

0:02.5

We're told it's something to be feared.

0:04.7

That it means worrying about long days out with the kids.

0:07.6

But it means weakness.

0:09.9

Really?

0:10.9

Tena discrete ultrapads are incredibly thin and secure so you can live the life that you want.

0:16.2

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

0:20.2

It's time to rethink ladder leaks.

0:22.1

Visit tena.com.ukuk forward slash women. Always seek medical advice from your GP or pelvic health

0:27.6

specialist.

0:32.3

Hello everyone and thanks for joining me. It's Tuesday the 22nd of June and here's the latest on travel and destinations from the Greenlist and the travel desk of the independent.

0:44.5

First today, the strange tale of vaccine contraction, the more Brits are jabbed, the fewer people travel.

0:52.2

Will Matt Hancock ease quarantine and Indiana wants me, but Cornwall

0:57.5

doesn't necessarily. Of course, this podcast is completely free, as is my weekly travel email.

1:03.4

You can sign up at independent.co.uk forward slash newsletters. I have spent some of this morning reading an extraordinary survey.

1:15.7

This is by a guy called Ralph Anker, and he is a very, very long established and very competent

1:24.0

analyst of what's happening at the airports. And he's put together a report for a company called Air Service One.

1:32.3

And it shows that Heathrow, which was up until the coronavirus pandemic,

1:39.4

the busiest airport in Europe by a mile in May's just 17th. It's slipped pretty much every single

1:48.2

month since December, which coincidentally was when the vaccine rollout began in the UK,

1:56.0

ahead of everywhere else. So it was 6th in December, 12th in January, 13th in February and March, 14th in April

2:02.7

and it's now been overtaken by Barcelona, Palma and Paris's second airport, Alley. And

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