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The first thing Joel Nantel did when he returned home from Bali on a
rescue flight was have a Cornish pasty and a cup tea.
The 28-year-old bar worker from Swansea and his girlfriend
Millie were stranded in the Indonesian resort by travel restrictions imposed due to
the pandemic.
However, they arrived back in the UK on Sunday on a flight organised by the UK government.
“Luckily the British embassy (in Indonesia) was amazing and eventually got us
on a rescue flight home,” he said.
“We had special permission to transit through Hong Kong where a section
of the airport was closed off with guards.
“We were greeted (in the UK airport) by people in hazmat suits
as we came off the plane.
“It was really quite an ordeal but we’re home now and the send-off
we had from Bali was something special.”
And what was the first thing Joel did when he got home?
“I
went straight down the bakery for a Cornish pasty, then came home and had a cup
of tea – it really made my day,” he said.
“I
can’t go back to Swansea yet to see my family because my mum is showing some
symptoms and self-isolating, which is quite irritating.”
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said today that the UK government was making arrangements to fly
tens of thousands of Britons home.
