May 11th - Trains, Planes and Automobiles
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | At Cabri, we know everything in life is better shared. |
| 0:03.5 | So we're giving up to 50% off Merlin UK attractions when you buy participating packs of Cabri and Cabri Biscuits. |
| 0:10.6 | So, who will you take? |
| 0:12.3 | We're taking Zara from school because she knows everything about pop stars and wants to meet them. |
| 0:18.1 | With days out at Madam Two Sores London, Alton Towers and more. |
| 0:22.3 | Grab your participating pack of Cabri today. |
| 0:25.1 | Visit fun.cabri.com.com. |
| 0:26.2 | UK for teas and season booking information. |
| 0:32.1 | Hello, it's Tuesday, the 11th of May, and here's the very latest on travel and destinations from the Green List. |
| 0:39.6 | Today, I'm talking about British Airways' bizarre warning to holidaymakers from the 17th of |
| 0:45.2 | May. Yes, that's Green Day, that it will still be illegal to travel for leisure. |
| 0:51.3 | Talking of next Monday, your vaccine passport will be ready if you've been |
| 0:56.2 | lucky enough to be jabbed, but how exactly? And the pain of the train. What's going on with those |
| 1:02.9 | high-speed services to and from London? Now, this podcast is completely free, but if you want to |
| 1:10.0 | support us, please subscribe to my new |
| 1:12.3 | weekly travel email. Simon called us Travel Week, which is also free and packed with money |
| 1:18.6 | saving insider tips. You can do that at independent.com.uk slash newsletters. |
| 1:28.0 | So six days before the government's 19 week ban on international travel is lifted, |
| 1:35.5 | British Airways has just told me that if I travel from Heathrow to Faroe on that day, |
| 1:41.3 | I will be breaking the law if I am not going abroad for legally permitted reasons. |
| 1:47.2 | This does not include holidays, BA tells me, and I'm also got to complete a declaration to travel |
| 1:53.5 | form, even though I'm sure those are going to be abolished after Sunday. And it's an offence to |
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