At the end of last week Transport Secretary Grant Shapps outlined the UK’s approach to travel. Basically, don’t. Under the new traffic light system almost everywhere you want to go on holiday after 17th May (when leisure travel abroad ceases to be illegal) is on the red or amber list and involves quarantine when you get back.
But there are twelve select countries and territories which you can visit freely without any quarantine, including Singapore, Portugal and The Faulkland Islands…
And (of course) there’s a massive catch here. We may be thumbs-up to New Zealand travellers coming here without having to quarantine, but there’s zero chance of New Zealand wanting you within 5,000 miles of the carefully crafted Covid-free zone that is New Zealand. In coronavirus terms they’re like the Aztecs, there’s no way they’re going to welcome you turning up like small-pox riden Cortez and coughing all over the airport.