Travel: A year of dreams and plans It’s been a difficult year for everyone who enjoy travelling, with Covid tests and quarantine as much a part of a trip abroad as packing a suitcase. Those who work in the industry have been hit particularly hard by the restrictions and the red lists brought about by the pandemic. But throughout 2021, St Ives Local columnists Jo and Paul Mooney, who own Cornish company Stunning Escapes, have remained enthusiastic and optimistic, despite the disappointment of having to postpone many of their customers’ holidays – and their own. Jo and Paul are currently on a long-awaited holiday with their 10-year-old twins in the United States. We look forward to hearing all about it when they return – but in the meantime, we thought we’d look back at some of their articles, which, over the last 12 months, have given us a window on the world at a time when we’ve travelled not much further than our own backyards.
with a new variant of the virus.” A year on, little has changed – but that doesn’t stop us dreaming of exotic locations, and at the beginning of 2021, Paul and Jo were keen to tell us all about one of their favourites – Mauritius. They described the pristine
In January, Paul and Jo observed: “Many of our customers are looking forward to trips this year, while others are more cautious and waiting to see how things unravel over the coming weeks, especially now we are faced
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