• For my trip to Mallorca and the Italy trip I've used Medicspot for my Covid tests - all 5 of them. No links to them, just a customer, but while they're far from the cheapest they've been reliable and quick so far. The pre-departure test and the pre-return-to-the-UK tests were done with a lateral flow test which you register and photograph, and they send you a certificate. Seems to work well.

    Interesting that for Mallorca, a pre-departure LFT test is enough. For Germany, you need a PCR test (and I thought that was standard, didn't realise Spain had laxer rules).

  • Spain didn't require any test to get into the country if you're double-vaccinated, hence why I've done 5 tests rather than 6. So far I've done:

    Mallorca: Lateral flow test before flying back to the UK (UK requirement), PCR for Day 2 test (UK requirement).
    Italy: Lateral flow test before flying out (Italian requirement), lateral flow test before flying back (UK requirement), PCR test for Day 2 test (UK requirement).

    Just waiting on the results of my Day 2 test after flying back from Italy, but I used one of my spare lateral flow tests yesterday and it was negative, so fingers crossed.

    Happily I didn't have to quarantine when I arrived in Italy (I arrived just before they got rid of the need for quarantine for people travelling from the UK) as the event I was doing was classified as a National Sporting Event, so I was exempt from quarantine under the elite athletes rule. Somewhat ironically.

    Edited to add: Also didn't need a test when I popped briefly into Switzerland on Thursday, going down the Umbrail pass before heading to the bottom of Stelvio. Cos Schengen.

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