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Podcast: Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
Episode: August 2nd - Plans announced for returning to Rhodes
Description: Holidaymakers whose trips to Rhodes were cut short by wildfires have been offered a week’s free stay on the island by the Greek prime minister. After wildfires ravaged up to 15 percent of Rhodes, Kyriakos Mitsotakis told ITV Good Morning Britain: “The island is perfectly back to normal.”Around 20,000 tourists were evacuated from resorts in the southeast of the island when wildfires spread on 22 July.Many overseas visitors were placed in emergency shelters set up in schools and other public buildings, and flown back early in an airlift.Anyone whose holiday ended...