From Flocktober Folk to House Swappers, here’s 2021’s all-new holiday tribes

The dark winter months are usually a time of TV adverts and emails from travel companies asking us to dream of sea and sunshine. This year, of course, everything is different. However much we may fantasise about swapping our wellies for jellies and kicking our feet into the waves, there’s a rainy cloud of confusion over travel corridors, quarantines and even whether or not there will be barricades along the A30 to keep Londoners out of Cornwall.