No, you didn’t read that wrongly. Our friends at United Airlines might just get us back on transatlantic planes out to Bidenland as we’re now calling it.
United have launched the world’s first free transatlantic Covid-testing pilot programme.
For customers travelling from November 16 through December 11 from Newark to London Heathrow free of charge.
I touched down in the land of the Delta Blues with United a couple of years ago.
When I flew into Memphis from Newark for an MLK50 (Martin Luther King) road trip.
And sat beside a Memphian coming home who pointed out the Mississippi below.
As we drank craft beers and discussed the future travel for America.
And on the tee…
I thought it was just an hour the clocks went back… you know the old saying Fall back Spring forward.
But then I find that one of those Spring rites of passage, the Masters golf tournament will be held this year from this Thursday, in Augusta, Georgia.
Of course there will be more than a few references to azaleas, or the lack of them, this week.
We’ll miss the galleries though and the hollers of ‘You’re the Msn.’
I was one at Royal Portrush at last year’s Open Golf Championship when we were 20 deep shouting on Ireland’s Shane Lowry to victory.
All of which deviation off the tee brings me to Hastings Hotels and Slieve Donard‘s richly-deserved recognition as Northern Ireland’s Best Golf Hotel at the World Golf Awards.
Once I get these fingers repaired I’ll be bringing the game I’ve developed.
From watching from out of my window onto North Berwick on Scotland’s Golf Coast.
And on the toboggan run…
Now I don’t need an Austrian toboggan run to shred my body.
A shopping trolley and a supermarket car park will do just as well to break my fingertips and tear off my nails.
Of course the prospect of a toboggan run as a detour during my famed booze bus trip to the Oktoberfest had me salivating.
I didn’t trouble the Winter Olympics talent scouts at Kirchberg and Kitzbuhel.
Though with rider and toboggan going separate ways seconds after launch.
I reprised the high jinks on my Topflight for Schools trip to Ehrwald in the Austrian Tirol last year.
Who needs a toboggan or sled anyway? I’m the human sled!
Enough already… let’s get back on piste and Kitzbuhel is reopening to recreational skiers from November 30 with Covid restrictions.
Return flights from London Gatwick to Innsbruck with EasyJet are from €62pp and from Dublin to Munich are from €80pp.
And anything can happen in Munich… or is that just me?