20 reasons why Portugal should be your first holiday after lockdown is lifted
Quarantine-free holidays to Portugal look promising as data suggests the country should be green-listed next month
Portugal could soon be added to holiday green list
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In the new dawn of travel, when the starting gun has sounded and we are all longing for a taste of the unknown, exotic or merely different, Portugal is that rare thing of being near but with beaches that rival the Caribbean, of being foreign but familiar. Best of all, they love us. After all, Portugal is England’s oldest ally – with a friendship formalised in 1386 when Richard II of England agreed the Treaty of Windsor with John I of Portugal, promising, among other things, “If in time to come… we shall need the support of the other, the ally shall be bound to give aid and succour to the other”.