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News that Portugal will be taken off the government's green list of quarantine-free destinations from Tuesday has thrown travel plans for thousands into disarray. Some tell the BBC of cancelled holidays, wasted money and family visits postponed once again. Kerry, a photographer from the Wirral, says her family - like many others - have had "the year from hell". Her partner has been shielding for over a year due to an auto-immune disease, Kerry has had to nurse her mother through Covid and a stroke, and her month old son has hardly known a world without a pandemic. She was just about to book a trip to Portugal, one of the few tourist destinations where quarantine-free travel was allowed, when the rules changed. From BST on Tuesday, it will join the amber list, meaning holidaymakers should not visit and arrivals must self-isolate for 10 days.

It has turned up on more must-visit lists lately than nearly anywhere else. And no wonder—the sun-soaked, western sliver of southern Europe has much to offer: rich culture, beautiful architecture, and a dazzling culinary scene. Not to mention the well-styled hotels that are the stuff of social media dreams. Although equal in beauty to neighboring Mediterranean mainstays like Majorca and St.

The mood at Faro airport was buoyant. Camera operators and photographers jostled to take pictures of smiling tourists, perhaps not as many as hoped, for but more are on the way. In half of the passengers coming through this airport were from the UK.

With a few days of spectacular diving near Lagos fresh in the memory, Kevin Rushby had to tackle the last few hurdles of Covid paperwork to return home. Part One. The End. I thought I had jumped every hurdle: I had filled out an online UK government travel declaration unnecessary , I had taken a Covid-PCR test before I travelled and then two more while in the Algarve one more than necessary, as it turns out.