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You and Yours: Travel vaccination rules, British fish tastes, Property market

25/03/2022

Travel vaccination rules, British fish tastes, Property market

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Travel vaccination rules, British fish tastes, Property market

Conflicting travel vaccination rules. Fish and British taste buds. Hot property market.

Travel vaccination rules for going abroad. Making unpopular fish more appealing to British taste buds. If you'd like to move house, is now a good time or should you wait to buy?

In the last week coming home from a trip abroad has become a lot easier. There's no paperwork or tests to worry about any more. It's just like it was before the pandemic - but only when you're coming back. On the way out of the UK, the rules are still set by the country you're heading off to. Most still have some restrictions in place and entry requirements can also change at any point. But as travellers emerge from the depths of the pandemic, many are struggling to understand different countries' rules on vaccinations. We hear from a listener trying to make sense of France's vaccination rules for people entering from the UK. We also speak to Simon Calder, Travel Editor of the Independent and Sean Tipton from ABTA - The Travel Association.

We explore whether renaming some fish might make it more appealing to British taste buds. The Cornish Fish Producers Organisation says it can make a real difference.  They've rebranded two types of fish - Megrim sole has been renamed Cornish sole and Spider crab is now known as Cornish King crab. Both are big exports but very little stays in the UK. The chef, Jack Stein, born and bred in Cornwall, tells us why he thinks the rebrand could change minds and hearts.

House prices across the UK just keep on climbing. For the first time, the average asking price for a new property is more than £350,000. According to Rightmove, there's now twice as many buyers as sellers active in the market.  But some experts say it won't be long before the property bubble bursts. We speak to Henry Davis, a property developer with more than 30 years experience and author of a new book, The Truth about Property.


Presenter: Peter White
Producer: Tara Holmes

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