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Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

September 16th - The Waiting Game

Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

The Independent

Places & Travel, Leisure, Society & Culture

3.6628 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The waiting game goes on – how I predict international travel rules will change.


What could happen to the despised red list.


And trains turn out to be much more punctual if there are fewer of them, and hardly any passengers.


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0:00.0

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0:20.3

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0:22.2

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0:27.7

specialist.

0:32.2

Hello, it's Thursday the 16th of September and thanks for joining me, Simon Calder, for the latest on

0:38.3

travel and destinations from the Green List and the travel desk of the Independent.

0:43.7

Today, the waiting game goes on, how I predict international travel rules will change for

0:50.6

the UK. What could happen to the despised red list?

0:55.6

And trains turn out to be much more punctual if there are fewer of them and hardly any passengers.

1:02.5

Of course, this podcast is completely travel.

1:05.0

Completely free.

1:06.5

Not travel free, that would be wrong.

1:08.8

As is my weekly travel email, do sign up at

1:11.9

independent.co.com.uk forward slash newsletters and it will be with you at 7 a.m. on Friday.

1:20.8

Well, I was at the start of the week told that we would be expecting a change in the international travel rules on Wednesday or

1:30.4

Thursday. You will have spotted it is now later and later and later on Thursday and nothing has

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