Postcard from Slovenia
When I told a friend I was off to Slovenia he questioned why I’d go to a country that had only vaccinated around 64% of its population, compared to 95% in the UK. I explained to him that the vaccination rates of a country would not have the slightest bearing on whether I would choose to go there, because these vaccines don’t appear to stop transmission or infection, they only possibly lessen the chance of serious illness in the person who has taken them. And besides, I needed a break from this stifling little island. What I found, though, was a mixed picture. In some ways it’s better in Slovenia than in the UK, but in many other ways it's much worse, making our regulations seem light and liberal. That I had not expected. Getting a flight can often be stressful; in Covid times multiply that by ten. I awoke (after bad dreams) two hours before my alarm on the day of my flight and was unable to get back to sleep, a million things going through my mind, a million things that could go