Wanderlust

THE DESTINATION: TENERIFE

“Wow, was the whole of England on your plane?” said the airport worker at Tenerife South Airport. I laughed from under my mask. I was standing in a long queue of socially distanced, last-minute travellers, waiting to get my temperature checked, just days after the Canary Islands were added to the UK’s travel corridor.

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