The sea front at Falaserna beach on the western coast of Crete island remains largely emptySet on the edge of a craggy Cretan cove with winding paths of sage and bursts of hot-pink bougainvillea, the Elounda Peninsula is the favoured haunt of French, German, and Swiss executives, increasingly flying in on private jets, seeking a pandemic-free holiday destination. Now, affluent Britons are joining in, defying warnings by Boris Johnson to avoid holidaying at amber-listed countries. Sponsored“It’s absurd, nonsensical and quite frankly, pisses me off,” said a leading British banker upon check-in of the travel advisory. “The role of a government is to legislate and enforce the laws, not to set out a moral compass that lays guilt-trips on people who have obeyed the rules and paid heavily to observe them – in this case, booking tickets, undergoing five sets

Source: The Times May 24, 2021 04:11 UTC