The travel correspondent of The Independent is normally to be found in the fashionable Bibliotekstan district of Stockholm, sharing memories and a glass of Arctic akvavit with assorted members of Abba.
But as the musicians talked wistfully about Our Last Summer, he slipped away to tackle your pressing questions for an hour. These are the greatest hits.
Testing times
Q: Do you think the day two test for green list countries will still be in play over the next few months? I am waiting to book my test until the last minute when we go in October in case it is not needed and would have been wasted money.
“Yyhsas”
A: Thank you for giving me the opportunity to warn people not even to think about booking the so-called “day two” test until the night before departure back to the UK. There is no upside in booking it earlier, just a potential downside.
The testing requirements for the UK are frankly ludicrous. I can see some merit in a pre-departure test – so long as it is professionally conducted – but to insist on an expensive and onerous PCR test after arrival in the UK, even for…
