Travel question: Will Euro 2020 provide a rare opportunity to explore Russia?

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St Petersburg’s Krestovsky Stadium will host four games during the tournament (Getty)

Q You wrote (at some length!) about the World Cup in Russia in 2018 and the way that travellers could take advantage of visa-free access to visit the country without all the red tape, even if they had no interest in football. I see that one of the venues for Euro 2020 is St Petersburg, and I wonder if this will present a similar opportunity for exploration under the cover of a football tournament?

Ian B

A Euro 2020 is very different from the usual competition between Europe’s footballing nations that takes place every four years. Normally the Uefa European Championship, as it is officially known, takes place in one or two countries (France 2016, Poland and Ukraine 2012 etc).