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TRAVELS IN THE TIME OF COVID #11 (2022): Sights passed at speed

Although I’m writing this on a fast, comfortable train hurling us towards London, this isn’t my favoured form of transport: you race past interesting places, just as this one is doing. Oh,

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TRAVELS IN THE TIME OF COVID #9 (2022): Lessons from history

In a museum deep below the soaring Gothic majesty of Yorkminster, down where the pillars of the Roman garrison fort in York are still visible, there are remarkable objects on display. Among them a hor

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TRAVELS IN THE TIME OF COVID #10 (2022): Hubris, arrogance and autocrats

There are few places quite as dispiriting as the broad moor outside Inverness which takes its name from the nearby Scottish village: Culloden. Here in 1746 the short-lived Jacobite rebellion came to a

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TRAVELS IN THE TIME OF COVID #8 (2022): Travails of travel

Because I’m not a scientist, I can’t confirm that irritability is a side effect of Covid. But that – and a blinding headache every time I coughed – was certainly evident. Perha

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TRAVELS IN THE TIME OF COVID #7 (2022): Can you travel with Covid?

Because a couple of RATs were ambiguous, while in Brighton staying with my son and his partner, I did a lab test. Six hours later and NZ$190 lighter, Covid was confirmed. Although the notification sai

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TRAVELS IN THE TIME OF COVID #6 (2022): There's good news, bad news and worse news

By definition, you can’t prepare for the unexpected. So traveling through the maskless Covid lands means a certain inevitability about being infected at some point. We each do an RAT once a week

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TRAVELS IN THE TIME OF COVID #4 (2022): Normal transmission resumed

When Russia’s President Putin unleashed his murderous fury across Ukraine, television screens filled with images of bombed and burning apartment blocks. They seemed very familiar here in Sweden

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TRAVELS IN THE TIME OF COVID #3 (2022): The cold Cold War frontline

Like many people, we celebrate our wedding anniversary, usually at a decent but modestly priced local restaurant but sometimes, if we’re flush, by going away for a couple of days. This year, bei

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TRAVELS IN THE TIME OF COVID #2 (2022): Feet on solid ground

As someone who grew up in a house where there was an open atlas on the lounge coffee table and a framed world map of PanAm routes in “the back kitchen”, travel was always part of life&rsqu

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TRAVELS IN THE TIME OF COVID #13 (2022): Home here and there

A peculiar thing happened a few weeks ago, the day before we left Edinburgh. When we stopped at a service station to fill up the rental I glanced across the road and on the other side was the Maybury

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TRAVELS IN THE TIME OF COVID #1 (2022): Time to fly

Nobody has called us crazy, stupid or full of arrogant disregard. However in this increasingly angry climate I'd expect all those accusations to be leveled. And worse. That's because we're leaving for

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TRAVELS IN THE TIME OF COVID #12 (2022): Looking at the wider world

The old British music hall song She Was Poor But She Was Honestcame with a singalong chorus: “It’s the same the whole world over, it’s the poor what gets the blame. It’s the ri

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TRAVELS IN THE TIME OF COVID #5 (2022): Another strangely normal

Travel in Europe during Covid can offer inconveniences, but fewer than masked-up/scan-in New Zealanders might think. That’s because – and this bears repeating for those at home who are fru

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MID-YEAR REPORT, THE TOP 20 OF (2022): The taste of Elsewhere

...Listener, which appeared the following week as Travels in the Time of Covid (and also travels in the time of Ukraine,...

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