{"id":144,"date":"2020-02-03T09:18:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T09:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=144"},"modified":"2020-02-17T11:03:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T11:03:14","slug":"life-goes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Ob-la-di ob-la-da life goes on."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At 11.00pm on 31st January 2020 the United Kingdom became the first ever state to leave the European Union. The UK has now entered a transition period that will last until at least the end of the year.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/eurflag-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/eurflag-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/eurflag-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/eurflag-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/eurflag-1568x1046.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have booked or are planning to travel to the EU in 2020, then everything will stay the same as it did before Brexit.  If you want to double check anything about you holiday plans to the EU then contact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelcounsellors.co.uk\/maggie.bush\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Maggie<\/a> to put your mind at rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The transition period lasts until the end of 2020. The deal  allows for an extension by one or two years, although Boris Johnson, the UK Prime Minister has  ruled that out.  So there is still a chance that things might continue as they are for awhile to come. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Book your European Break with the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/amex.co.uk\/refer\/mALCOJphOv?XLINK=MYCP\" target=\"_blank\">American Express Platinum Card<\/a>.  New card holders will earn enough points to exchange for 2 return tickets to Europe. Click on this <a href=\"http:\/\/amex.co.uk\/refer\/mALCOJphOv?XLINK=MYCP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">link to earn an additional 5000 points<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 11.00pm on 31st January 2020 the United Kingdom became the first ever state to leave the European Union. The UK has now entered a transition period that will last until at least the end of the year. If you have booked or are planning to travel to the EU in 2020, then everything will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=144\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ob-la-di ob-la-da life goes on.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,20,1,47],"tags":[137,134,133,136,138,135],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city","category-europe","category-uncategorized","category-uk","tag-boris-johnson","tag-brexit","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-passport","tag-travel","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travellogs.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}