Who on earth chooses to holiday abroad to holiday hotspots just as we're recovering, economically, from Covid? It's madness and chaotic airports are a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Reading news stories, people are saying they deserve a foreign holiday now. Deserve? Perhaps those who maintained vital public services deserve a holiday, but do they - or indeed anyone - deserve a foreign holiday? For the majority, furlough was one long, paid holiday.
I don't think we've had a foreign holiday since we went to Gozo in 2014, and I'm not missing going to foreign climes. In fact, Gozo was a hell-hole of unairconditioned heat, which I didn't particularly enjoy.
My advice to those who really want to go abroad is to not go to the places everyone else wants to go to - the chances of flights being delayed are massively smaller. Try Ukraine, Syria or Somalia - can't see any scrambling for seats on flights to those destinations.
Further advice would be to holiday within the UK. The worst that could happen is that your holiday comprises one large deluge of rain and a bit of windy weather. At least you'd be infinitely more guaranteed of reaching your destination and getting back. Why risk torture with an attendant high cost?
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