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Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

September 5th - Sunday Best

Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

The Independent

Places & Travel, Leisure, Society & Culture

3.6628 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Travel restrictions: the three reasons why even the most bizarre remain in place.


Flights are being cancelled – can you expect more than a refund?


And Sunday best for rail travel – in some parts of the UK at least.


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0:00.0

There's a lot we're told about bladder lakes.

0:02.5

We're told it means you're getting old.

0:04.7

But it means that you have to stop doing the things that you love.

0:07.3

But it means weakness.

0:09.5

Really?

0:10.6

Tenna Discrete offers a range of pads uniquely designed to make living life with incontinence so much easier.

0:16.6

And they give you Tenna triple protection against odour, leaks and moisture.

0:20.9

It's time to rethink ladder leaks.

0:22.8

Visit tennah.com.ukuk forward slash women.

0:25.5

Always seek medical advice from your GP or pelvic health specialist.

0:33.1

Hello, it's Sunday the 5th of September, and thanks for joining me, Simon Calder, for the latest

0:39.0

on travel and destinations from the Green List and the Travel Desk of the Independent, today

0:44.6

beneath the flight path going into the southern runway at Heath Road.

0:50.2

Well, I'm going to be talking about travel restrictions, the reasons why even the most bizarre rules remain in place.

0:58.3

Flights are being cancelled left, right and centre, partly as a result.

1:02.5

And Sunday best for rail travel in some parts of the UK at least.

1:07.6

Of course, this podcast is completely free, as is my weekly travel email, do sign up at

1:14.1

independent.co.com.uk forward slash newsletters. I've been doing lots of thinking and reading

1:24.0

and considering about why the travel restrictions we've got both here and in many other

1:30.0

parts of the world are so wrong. I mean, they just do not seem to be based in reality. And I'm

1:37.3

actually being helped in my thinking by a very good piece by Thomas Wright, who's a writer for

1:42.7

the Atlantic, a US magazine, but he's addressed restrictions

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