Karon beach today (taken by my partners friend)
These pictures perfectly capture the absurdity of it all from a travel and testing perspective.
Tomorrow, I could swap the cold, dark, Covid ridden UK for a week or 2 on this secluded beach in Thailand.
Instead of having to socialise indoors cos of the shite UK winter weather, I could spend almost my whole time outdoors, in the sunshine, not surrounded by people....and any international tourists I might encounter will have also had to test negative upon arrival into Thailand.
It's about as Covid safe an environment you can get.
Yet to return to the Covid ridden UK, I'd have to test negative before boarding the plane, and test again upon getting home and isolate until the result comes through.
How does that make any sense?
Hardly any other countries have these prohibitive measures on their fully vaccinated nationals returning home.
It's early January before the entry processes for the UK are reviewed, and its high time they stopped treating people who travel abroad like lepers.