Heartbreak and hope
It was, funnily enough, the most helpless I've felt in decades. My wife and I were really excited about the UK's International Travel Update until the moment I saw the list of countries coming off the red list. South Africa was not on it and that broke my heart. We've not been to Southern Africa to visit family for more than two and a half years because of the global pandemic. Fair enough. Different countries handle the pandemic differently. Also fair enough (even though it doesn't always make sense). We were unable to go with South Africa on the red list because of the regulations on coming back. We simply can't afford the mandatory £2250 per person stay in a government hotel for 11 nights. So when the data analysts and commentators predicted that South Africa would be one of the countries coming off the red list we were well and truly excited. But then that didn't happen. The list of eight countries coming off the dreaded list did not include South Africa or N...