You should have been there

What's the current guidance and what will await us, when and if we do get away?  Simon unveils his five "tests " for prospective travellers while Mick continues his worldwide search for Gerald Bernstein.                                                                                                                                           We'd like to thank Daisy and Poppy for their help.                                                                                                                                                                          You can read the article from the New England Journal of Medicine  at :   https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa031349

Enjoy the best bits from our first 20 podcasts.  Among the categories: best travel moment, best lock down story and best breakfast. 

Who would you most like to travel with on a long trip?  Someone who get things organised, can carry most of the kit, tells a good joke..........?  Thanks to Charlotte and Alec for their contributions.  

What were your journeys to school like? Long, uneventful, exciting, dangerous.....?  Enjoy the experiences of some of our listeners.  We'd like to thank Steph, Camilla, Silas, Lynette, Carol, Daisy and Poppy for their contributions. And the website we mentioned is www.boredpanda.com/dangerous-journey-to-school 

Travel and journeys have inspired some great lines and uplifting verses. But, how many of our chosen poems do you know ? 

Which famous site has come out top in our twitter poll?  Will it be a wonder of nature or an attraction created by us humans?   We also discuss Robert Louis Stevenson's book: Travels with a donkey in the Cévennes

The musical fanfare,  The Curtain Rises, was composed by Kevin Macleod (incompetcech.com)  

Simon and I exchange ways of keeping the flame of travel alive, without going anywhere. Expect entertaining books, silly games and a brief appearance from the president of The AA, Edmund King.  The book "Journey round my room" is available, free, at gutenberg.org. 

Travel and tourism will be transformed. Will our attitudes have to change too? 

We ponder the future direction of travel and suggest some ways of combatting cabin fever.

Simon and Mick make  a few personal confessions and reveal some of travel's great fakes and fakers.  They award the title of the greatest travel impostor to Georges Psalmanazar (not his real name), native of Formosa (well, not exactly) who hoodwinked  London society in the eighteenth century.