Visiting European Countries

I hope they have more efficient planes which use less "A1" or "A" jet fuel before then as well as no contrails.

Oi I distinctly remember Mrs Shark wanting to fly to Cebu to get her hair or something done a few years back

Yes - that was many years ago, but that wasn't the only reason she went there. Seeing her parents/family was the main reason.

I haven't been over there, or anywhere else for that matter, since 2013.

Offsetting her footprint

I try but she stood on my foot two days ago whilst we were loading the food into our car and we all know what happens when the same weight is concentrated on a narrow heel.

We forage and have no car

From the Telegraph today. This makes a lot of difference to a lot of people wanting to book holidays to Europe. The travel industry has been waiting for this along with a lot of would be holiday makers.

Along with the scrapping of the PCR test requirement before departure back to the U.K.


“A negative lateral flow test, taken up to three days before your return home, will no longer be required from October 4 as long as you are fully vaccinated. This has been perhaps the most onerous and stressful requirement for returning to England. Not only did you have to arrange a time and place to take your test within the right time frame, you also had to pray it was negative. If a positive result flashed up on the test kit, you were faced with no choice but to pay for at least another 10 days' accommodation in your destination and, depending on local rules, were at risk of having to go into an isolation hotel. You couldn’t return home until a test came back negative.

From a purely psychological point of view, it was a major disincentive to travel and the removal will be universally welcomed by holidaymakers and the industry. It is yet to be decided whether this must be supervised in person or by video, but it will not be the free NHS lateral flow tests.”

This is another indicator that things are returning to pre-covid days.
We went to Tesco and Lidl yesterday and there seemed to be less face masks on show again.
My wife and I always wear ours and I don't know when we will stop doing this.

My sis flew fro Heathrow earlier to Spain, she has Antigua booked for November, life is slowly getting back to normal

High 6degree of insistence on mask wearing in shops and public transport in Spain where we are.
A high degree e.g. fella ( local) gets on bus no mask driver boots him off, didn't understand the debate but I understood the remonstrations and end result

Wonderful sight, glad I put it on my must see list

My sis sent me this from her apartment

Got my February trip in mind already lol winter sun needed

I don’t wear a mask at all now. We did the other week on public transport.

The little one came home from school early on Friday with something. The dreaded c word sprang to mind immediately. Whatever it was came and went pretty quickly. I cant help but think I have been exposed to it on more than one occasion over the last 18 months, especially in the work environment ( where social distancing and precautions were typically atrocious). My worst cases of any form of respiratory infection came in several occasions from 2015 - 2018 and have never experienced them since.

Our trip to Spain at Christmas is still on. Holiday bookings are now going through the roof again now, apparently.

The pool at the house we are staying

Amir Khan….

Boxer Amir Khan removed from US flight https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58612530

Visiting the Med…

https://vimeo.com/primemovement/mediterraneandiet