Travel bans were lifted only recently. Yet many of our gung-ho friends have already clocked up not only ski holidays but also trips to Lamu, the fashionable Kenyan island.
None of the tropical travellers seemed to mind that the majority went down with Omicron on arrival in Lamu and most of the skiers shrugged off catching it on the plane back from Switzerland. It was just ‘par for the course’, they said.
Green with envy, I am desperate for a change of scene. For professional reasons, a four-day