With the UK government speaking of allowing people to take international holidays again from May, we asked people if they had any tentative travel plans lined up.

Aaron Fitzmaurice, 18, Douglas, told us that he already had a trip booked to Tenerife for October and is also looking forward to the possibility of ’Magaluf with the boys’ - having booked a trip there last July which was cancelled.

He said that they had also talked about going to Leeds Festival, which is usually held at the end of July, but that ’I don’t see that happening.

’ I don’t really want to go anyway - I don’t think putting a festival on straight after a pandemic is a great idea, it’s not very hygienic.’

When we spoke to Patrick, 69, and Pam Davy, 72 of Union Mills, they were looking in the window of a travel agent, contemplating a cruise to Canada, but not until September 2022.

’My risk profile is zero,’ said Pam.

She explained that they were on a cruise which was cut short during the onset of the pandemic last March.

After a month-long nonstop return journey involving only refuelling at sea, they were some of the first residents to return to the island and undergo quarantine in the Comis Hotel.

’It was an around-the-world cruise, so we got half-way around,’ Pam said.

Asked whether the journey was a frightening experience because of the pandemic, Pam said it wasn’t - ’because we were in a bubble’ [on the cruise ship].

Patrick told us it didn’t put him off booking another cruise, either, because ’life’s too short’.

Pam added that they would be choosing cruises which didn’t involve any stop-offs on land - but that she would one day love to see Canada and New England in the autumn.

Samantha Shore, 53, Ramsey, said that she would like to see more of the UK, explaining: ’I’ve been to lots of places all over the world but I’ve never really travelled around the UK - I want to go to Scotland, for example.’

Billy Shore, 24, said that he thinks Samantha would like Edinburgh, because ’I was there for two days and a I fell in love with it. It’s gorgeous.’

Samantha, who is originally from Sydney, Australia, also wants to see more of London, saying: ’I’ve never really been, apart from to deal with passports and that sort of stuff - I want to go and do all the touristy things, go and see the relatives at the palace - "Hey Lizzy, I’m here.".’

Billy told us that he had been planning on going to visit his sister in Manchester in July, but that the pandemic cancelled this plan.

Lisa Creighton, 42, Peel, said that she would love to get away: ’Even me, I’m a real homebody but I’m starting to get itchy feet a little bit.’

Asked where she would like to go first, Lisa said: ’Anywhere warm really.

’I’d like to take the kids away to somewhere like Tenerife again, to a nice waterpark.’

’But I’d also like to go on a grown-up break away somewhere like Rome.’

She said that she was not planning on travelling this year, but that her partner was a different matter - having already ’pretend booked’ his ideal holiday online without actually clicking ’book’.

*interviews took place prior to island entering lockdown earlier this week.