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Hello and thanks for joining me. It's Friday, the 25th of June, and here's the latest on travel and destinations

from the Green List and the Travel Desk of the Independent. Who's gone green? Who hasn't? Why not? And

the Red List arrivals. Of course, this podcast is completely free, as is my weekly travel email.

You can happily sign up at Independent.co.uk forward slash newsletters. It was an extraordinary day on Thursday.

At around 6.30, the Northern Irish government put on its website a list of new Green List countries.

There was no formal announcement at that stage.

However, we learnt that the Balearic Islands, that's Mayorka, Menorca, Ibiza, and its little little sister, Formantera, would be going onto the green list,

alongside Madeira, which was, well, four weeks ago on the green list, three weeks ago on the amber list,

it's about to become on the green list again, and Malta, which many people have wondered why it wasn't there

a long time ago. Plus some Caribbean destinations, Antigua, Barbados, Grenada, and a place which

lots of people think is in the Caribbean, but you clearly don't, and that is beautiful Bermuda.

We've also got British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, and then onto the padding, which I must,

I'm afraid, use to describe Pitcairn in the distant Pacific and the British Antarctic

Territory, where the weather forecast for 4 a.m.

on Wednesday, which is when these things takes effect, is minus 48 with a 25% chance of snow.

So why did they go green? Well, because the government says everything is based on the science

and the data said that they could do. But crucially, everywhere that isn't, Malta is on the

green watch list. And that means that at any moment, the government could say,

right, sorry, we're going to put this on the Amber list or even the Red List. And therefore,

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