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The Prime Minister's father revealed he will use the 'Stanley Johnson loophole' to travel to Greece and visit his holiday let while calling for taxi price athens to airport his son to 'make the country an easy destination again' amid the amber list chaos.
"I don't know what the reaction of the British public (has been), I came here to have a quiet time to organise the house," he said in comments to local reporters carried by Sky News, best private tours in Thessaloniki greece referring to measures to make the property COVID-19 secure for lettings.
LONDON, July 4 (Reuters) - The father of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday defended his decision to fly to Greece even though at that time the government advice was for UK nationals to avoid all but essential international travel.
Property hunters will be dazzled after £2million was dropped off the asking price of a manor house best private tours in athens greece South Wales with a neo-Grecian temple, an underground games room, 75 acres of peacock-dotted land athens airport to city taxi cost and a tennis court.
But he recalled speaking to a Greek journalist who said the country's government had banned 'direct flights', taxi from athens to delphi prompting him to stop over at the Bulgarian capital of Sofia before taking a 'more-or-less connecting flight to Athens'.
Currently, Greece is listed as an amber country, Thessaloniki guided tours meaning visitors must take a Covid test within three days before travelling back to England transportation in greece athens and quarantine for 10 days upon their return, booking tests on day two and day eight.
The Prime Minister's father continued: taxi athens airport to piraeus price 'Ironically, in March this year Parliament approved the "Stanley Johnson loophole" by deciding that, even if government policy is to "avoid non-essential travel", travelling abroad for athens airport to city taxi cost the purpose of managing a holiday home is now legally acceptable.
His trip to Greece last year sparked criticism from MPs, with Labour's Rosena Allin-Khan saying at the time: 'Most people have been following the guidelines and minibus taxi athens socially distancing - not everyone will get a holiday this year.
Stanley, 80, plans to stay on the Pelion peninsula with his wife at the beginning of September to manage his holiday home, which he says is a 'legally acceptable' excuse even if government policy advises to 'avoid non-essential travel'.
Health Secretary Sajid Javid is thought to be among the few who backed the proposals, believing the scheme would have given holidaymakers a fair warning that they could face an expensive quarantine hotel stay on their return to the UK.
And experts have predicted holiday sales will soar today after the amber watchlist plans were dropped, giving more confidence to British holidaymakers that they will still be able to travel this summer.
Bosses at more than 300 travel firms have written to the premier urging him to boil down the scheme to just a red list - containing the countries with the highest Covid rates or worrying variant outbreaks.
