WISH YOU WERE HERE
For many in the northern hemisphere, August means holiday season. It’s too hot to work, everyone else is away, people have switched on their email out-of-office and muted their WhatsApp notifications. It’s time to forget about work, wind down and turn to the things we love: friends, family, flying. It means being able to fly mid-week rather than just the weekend, to travel to sites and places we’ve always wanted to visit, and to meet up with old friends and make new ones. All of that everyday stuff that we take so much for granted, and that has been thrown into sharp relief as the pandemic and its effects continue. Somehow, for me at least, it’s made them more precious. The day taken away from the desk to make the most of…