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to moderate some conferences and there is a notion that, are people going to reset? think differently about travel? will there be more conscience travel and sustainability, thinking about that not just about the environment but what we do with the time we spend? certainly a time to value a trip more. what i think about non—stop is in 2021, if we do choose to travel and we can travel, whether we have a vaccination or risk tolerance, there will be a once—in—a—lifetime opportunity to see mount fuji, machu picchu, the angkor wat temples in cambodia without any tourists, and when will that happen again? i think there is an opportunity if people do choose to travel. i think people will have one big holiday next year.
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if anything, they will play just one big holiday and not just nip over to paris for the weekend, you know, a lot of effort and time put into it, and you may even have to consult with a travel agent! as opposed to buying it online. it's like we have gone back 30 years. and the grand master of travel, come on, tell us, what does the future hold? i would say that every second, value every second because i think we dojust rushed through stuff and don't appreciate everything. do not undervalue how much the travel experience can change everyone. that was amazing... hang on a minute, ade, because we have been talking about our experiences and hopes the next year but we have not asked you! what do you think is coming up, ade? it is a bit of hope
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we can take from you? do you know what, you guys have summed up a lot of this but i think for me, i have learnt we should not take it for granted. for many years, travel has been so easy for everybody. and i like the idea of next year being that one, rather than going for lots of small trips and weekends, we look for the one big life changing experience because you don't know when this can happen again and we don't know when it can happen again and as someone who, travel has changed my life so much, yeah, i want to hold onto every second so i think, for me next year, it is all about that big life changing trip. bring on 2021 and the travel show will be bigger, stronger and better! lovely chatting to you all! take care. merry christmas, everyone. merry christmas.
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right, for some, 2020 was going to be the year that they embarked on an adventure of a lifetime and there are not many who can say they are part of that exclusive club of people who have set foot in all of the countries in the world but there are people who attempts at all the time. this is what happens to people who are trying when travel came to a halt. i have been to every country in the world, it took me 17 years and five passports to do so! it was a huge personal challenge and a very long process. lots of focus and time and effort but it makes me really happy and proud every single day. of the people that have done it, women only make up about 10— 15% so we are quite the minority. i don't think having this goal
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is completely impossible place post—coronavirus, just that you have to understand it may take a little bit more time and effort and patience. i'mjulia. i'm chantelle. i'm chloe. and i'm angelique and we did a mad dash to get here. we were in cambodia and we saw things closing and we all things are getting an easy tourists except us and we were like, what is going on? so we did the mad dash to new zealand and got here literally before they got into their lockdown. we wanted to achieve our goal in the next two years of visiting every country so we were moving pretty fast until covid hit but the big question is if it lasts for another year, what will we do? where will we go? but i'm sure things will start to progress and eventually
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the world has to open up again. i am sam and i been to 183 countries and covid were starting to be talked about more and more people got worried and i had been seeing people wearing more masks and i figured while i only have 20 countries left and i was meant to finish in april and i flew to fiji to tonga and then tonga, two days later the borders closed and that no—one can leave and we were stuck there and i waited for five months and then i was hearing from government from other pacific islands that i would not be able to visit the other countries for 18 months, two years, and i decided after that that i would just leave. many people say can i do it? just do it and make it work so we always reverse engineer what we want to do. we say this is our goal and how can i make it happen? i did it because it was my dream since i was young and my dream was to see as much of the world as possible, to travel, see loads of different countries and i did a pretty good job with that so i'm definitely not disappointed! you have to understand your
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reasons for doing this. for some people, it is escapism, they want to get out of a rut and they think travel is like a holiday, an escape, but your why will colour the experience you have. i'm in the mountains of afghanistan and it is super beautiful, so nice. one of my favourite countries was afghanistan. it was a country everyone was scared of and i was scared of it before i went, and then i went there and then i loved it. i love super traditional, you go back in time, people wear traditional clothes, old buildings and only the real signs of modernity are people have cellphones and cars. it is not easy, i won't lie, it's not easy when you were always together, you still have
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to keep a structure and still have your own mental space to get away. there are times and we are travelling i said to the whole family you guys are on that side of the street and do not come to my side of the street! i would just walk by myself and within two minutes they were over here and i said what are you doing, this is my own mental space! everything makes more sense now to me and i find i understand peoples' behaviour, especially when they come from different cultures, a lot more. and, fingers crossed, they will be back on the road again very soon. that is it for this week. over the new year, you will get the chance to see some great trips from recent times, including a mind—blowing journey through kazakhstan, and a magical visit to rwanda. in the meantime, don't forget you can follow us on social media in all the usual places, twitter, facebook and instagram. until next time, have a happy, healthy and safe next couple
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of weeks and we will see you in the new year when, hopefully, we can get back on the road doing what we love the most. but, for now, from all of the travel show family, all over the world, it's goodbye.
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late afternoon. ambassadors from the 27 member countries on the details. the document setting out the deal runs to over twelve hundred pages. the prime minister — who was in downing street yesterday when the deal was confirmed —
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has also received a copy. here's our political correspondent leila nathoo. i have a small present for anyone who may be looking for something to read in that sleepy post—christmas lunch moment, and here it is. tidings, glad tidings of great joy, because this is a deal. some light reading. the post—brexit deal agreed yesterday between britain and the eu runs to more than 1,200 pages. this morning, the man who negotiated it for the eu side, michel barnier, briefed ambassadors of eu member states on its details. mission accomplished. what's in that blue folder sets out how the eu and uk will trade and co—operate from the new year — to finally have something on paper is
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a success for both sides. the deal was done in the nick of time with the uk already out of the eu and transition arrangements expiring within days. mps and peers will have until wednesday to digest the detail before being called back to parliament for a debate. there are unlikely to be any hold—ups in westminster, though. labour is set to back it. we will certainly be better off with this deal, and we have to make it work. no deal would have terrible consequences for our country, and the labour party could not enable that to happen. during the long months of negotiations, both sides seemed determined not to give ground. what is now on the table is a compromise, but those who campaigned for brexit have broadly given the deal thumbs up. if the contents are as described by the prime minister, then i think it is a very satisfactory outcome, and actually a very good one, given the rather bum hand he had been dealt when he took over from theresa may. britain's new relationship with brussels is now more defined.
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eu ambassadors are weighing up how the future looks with the uk on the outside. the deal will need time to play out in practice, but both sides will be relieved it was, against the odds, done. leila nathoo, bbc news. up to 800 soldiers have been driven into dover to help with coronavirus testing and the logistics of clearing the backlog of lorries there — after france closed its border with britain for two days, because of fears of cases of the new coronavious variant. frankie mccamley is there for us this lunchtime. frankie. well this is not the christmas thousands of drivers stuck here at manston airport were expecting, some of whom have been stuck here for four days with no access to washing facilities, now in the past ten minutes we have had a protest, i have just seen some locals passed
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food and drink under the fence to some of the drivers who are not going anywhere for some time. now every half an hour we are seeing round a dozen lorries leave the site, making their way a0 minutes to the port of dover, each of them will have tested negative to the coronavirus. they are carrying a letter signed by uk and french authorities to give them access to mainland europe. as you said 800 troops were drafted here to try and speed up the testing process, to try an get things moving and get people off the site, and since then it does seem to have worked. a lot of the roads in the area do seem to have cleared but things are not in fact back to normal yet and for many of the drivers stuck here in the queues, christmas is well and truly cancelled. thank you. apologies to viewers for the slight break up there on the line. the queen and prince philip are spending christmas at windsor
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for the first time in 30 years because of the coronavirus restrictions. daniela relph is there for us this lunchtime. well, the royal family have faced some of the same difficult decisions that so many people have had this year, and it is a scaled down royal christmas, plans for the usual celebration at sandringham were abandoned early this month. no public walk to church, no greeting wellwisher, it is just the queen and the duke of edinburgh, here at windsor castle and officials say they will be marking the quietly. for the rest of the royal family they are spending time quietly in their own smaller family units but some of the traditional royal christmas has been retain. there will be the queen's traditional message today, we can expect that to offer a message of hope and reassurance in light of the challenges of coronavirus, and we are told the queen has worshipped privately within the castle walls.
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