June 2nd - The Waiting Game
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
We still don’t know when the green list will change.
Gibraltar starts warning travellers of the consequences of a trip across the border to Spain.
And the tourism minister tells me: this British overseas territory is the safest place in Europe.
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| 0:36.7 | june and here's the latest on travel |
| 0:38.7 | and destinations from the Green List and the travel desk of the Independent. I'm still here in |
| 0:46.2 | beautiful Gibraltar where the sun is shining. Today the waiting game we still don't know when |
| 0:52.6 | the green list will change. |
| 0:54.8 | Gibraltar starts warning travellers of the consequences of a trip across the border to Spain, |
| 1:00.3 | and the tourism minister tells me this British overseas territory is the safest place in Europe. |
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| 1:17.9 | Unbelievably, we are still, as I record this, which is start of a beautiful afternoon, |
| 1:26.3 | unaware of when the next change in traffic light |
| 1:32.0 | ratings will take place. We know that it will be sometime this week. It hasn't happened on Monday |
| 1:37.9 | or Tuesday. It won't happen today, Wednesday, and we still don't know if it's going to happen on |
| 1:43.1 | Thursday or Friday, |
| 1:44.8 | all of which is very destabilising for the many people on whose travel plans the list |
| 1:52.4 | depends, or rather on the list their travel plans depend, and of course for the travel industry, |
| 1:58.4 | which wouldn't mind just having a little bit of warning about where it might be able in the next week or two to be selling holidays. |
| 2:07.3 | And so we are simply waiting. It may be that by later on this evening, we will be told that |
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