Like Allan Gibson (
Traveller Letters, June 26), I have an International Certificate of Vaccination which I have had since 1995. I use this yellow booklet to record all my vaccinations. Although we rarely need vaccinations for travel any more, I record all tetanus and influenza vaccinations each year. I recently had my COVID jab and the nurse was happy to record it in the book. We should all have one.
Barbara Perugini, Kew, VIC
WORLD VIEW
Ben Groundwater's souvenir musings prompted a lockdown journey. From the pictures on my own walls I travelled to Shetland, Orkney, the Outer Hebrides, St Kilda then back to Cornwall, Suffolk and onto Greece. The baskets took me to Finland and Vanuatu, the floor rugs to Fez, Kas and Connecticut. On the mantle pieces, ceramics transported me to Cyprus, Turkey, Azores, Cuba, Morocco, Tunisia. Elegant candlesticks from a Rouen antique shop as I ran for the ferry sit next to sea glass and shards from world beaches and a tiny pink-festooned, cracked cream jug marked "Selfridges", spotted in soil near Kings Cross, London. The fireplace holds round stones from Finland and holed flint, witches' stones from Suffolk pebble beaches while the Greek blue glass eye hanging at my window is a promise I will travel again.