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2020 was not the year we wanted but it made us appreciate what we have
Published on The Independent on 1st January 2021
Typically, 2 January is a busy date in the travel calendar. It’s when the lucky few who managed to get away for an exotic New Year’s Eve celebration start on their journey home, and when those of us who stayed put for the long winter start looking for somewhere warmer and sunnier to stave off the cold.
This year, so far at least, has been comparatively quiet and, like much of the preceding 10 months, dogged by uncertainty.
Before the new variant of coronavirus was discovered, I was quite upbeat about the travel industry’s prospects. After all, with vaccines on the way, and borders reopening, things were looking the best they’ve been for months. I even managed to escape to the comforting warmth of Dubai – further than I thought I’d travel for a year – for a few days of sun.
Words – December 2020
- Lastminute.com will repay more than £7m in refunds for cancelled holidays
- Airline launches ‘flights to nowhere’ for school trips
- UK travel quarantine: Business travellers and journalists exempt from England restrictions
- Virgin Atlantic to host pop up restaurant on Boeing 747 before it retires from service
- Lake Tahoe closed to tourists from Friday due to coronavirus
- Can I travel to Wales? Latest advice, rules and restrictions
- €280,000 painting found in recycling bin after owner leaves it at airport
- Australia and New Zealand will form travel bubble in 2021
- Airline offers ‘No Meal’ option to help reduce food waste
- Student travel window for January: How going back to university will work in 2021
- More than 300 passengers held overnight on Stena Line ferry after crew test positive for Covid
- What it’s like to visit Dubai after Covid
- Greece holidays: Am I allowed to visit, do I need a PCR test and what are the rules
- Dubai holidays: Am I allowed to visit, do I need a PCR test and what are the rules?
- Canary Islands holidays: What are the latest travel rules and do you need a Covid test?
- Can I travel between tiers 1, 2, 3 and 4? Rules and restrictions explained
- Alaska Airlines accused of ‘violating’ two Muslim men’s civil rights
- Tier 4 international travel: Can you still travel abroad?
- Pilot blamed for first local Covid case in Taiwan since April is fired from his job
- The Independent’s Christmas travel wishlist for 2021
- Pilots operate 9-hour flight to nowhere after windshield cracks
- Boeing 737 Max to make its first US flight for almost two years
- Briton turned away from Mallorca due to new Covid travel restrictions
- Best of the UK for 2021: Where to go, when and why
- Passenger runs from airport after TSA finds loaded gun in his carry on