Hello and thanks for joining me. It's Friday the 28th of May and here's the latest on travel and destinations from the Green List and the travel desk of the Independent.

Today I'm looking at my latest update on the Green List announcement timing. I'll bring you the bank holiday travel news.

Not looking great if you're trying to catch a long distance train. And Jersey opens up for vaccinated travellers. Of course, this podcast, as you know, completely free, as is my weekly travel email. You can sign up for that at independent.com.com.com.com.ters. Well, every day I phone the Department for Transport.

And every day normally, they say, okay, well, we don't really know anything at the moment.

And so therefore we will give you a bit more of a heads up soon.

So today I call them as normal.

Can you kindly tell me when the red list and green list and amber list changes will be made?

And they said, hang on a minute.

And they went off and they said, yes, we will be changing the list obviously not saying how because

nobody knows that on the third of june and that means that it will come into effect a week after that

that's on the 10th of june and perhaps tellingly it means that if you stick to the three-week cycle, which the government says it's going to do, then you would have the next review coming into effect on the 1st of July, which is very telling because although schools in Scotland and Northern Ireland would already have broken up by then. July is kind of seen as the start

of the main summer holidays and it might mean that you would get a relatively small number of

countries joining the list initially and that would be gradually expanded as the, or significantly expanded from the 1st of July

when hopefully an awful lot of the world, or at least Europe, is looking more reasonable.

And at some stage we'll also get the US signing up.

There are talks going on.

So where is going to be on the green list? Well, anybody's guess,

literally it's anybody's guess. But my view is that the islands of Malta, and these are all

islands, by the way, the Balearics of Spain, and the Greek islands of Cos Road, Santorini,

and Zante are prime candidates.

How much the government will decide it's going to put islands on, we do not know,

but at least that kind of gets us somewhere,

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