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For British travelers, the summer of 2022 seems destined to be remembered as the season of waiting: queuing for passport control, parking on motorways, sleeping in airports or staring down tracks in fond hope of spotting a non-cancelled train. Getting there and back used to be the most tedious part of the holiday. Increasingly, it is the holidays.

How can you keep yourself and your loved ones occupied and amused during the Great Standstill? Here are 15 tips from the professionals:

Always carry baby wipes

This sound advice comes not from a parenting expert, but from Dougie Rankine, editor of Truck & Driver, the UK’s bestselling trucking magazine. “One of the most versatile and important items a motorist can have,” he says. If you need to know why, try traveling without them. The first time you forget the baby wipes will be the first time everybody in the back

(Bloomberg) — After US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi captivated the world’s attention with a groundbreaking trip to Taiwan, she received far less fanfare on her next stop.

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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, who has seen his approval rating drop to near historic depths just three months after taking office, didn’t see it necessary to greet Pelosi in person — opting for a phone call instead.

“President Yoon’s vacation schedule and Speaker Pelosi’s visit to the Republic of Korea overlapped, and we did not rearrange our schedule,” his office said in a statement.

Yoon was the only leader not to meet Pelosi in person during her high-stakes Asia trip, which included becoming the highest-level US official to visit Taiwan in 25 years, as well as the first sitting House speaker to visit South Korea in about 20 years.

Although Yoon has pledged to rebuild security ties