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How to get your Portugal, Italy or Malta fix – on home soil
These countries have tightened rules for UK travellers; here’s how to satisfy your wanderlust on home turf
30 June 2021 • 5:00am
Portmeirion in Wales was created by the architect Clough Williams-Ellis to resemble an Italian fishing village
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If you’re fully vaccinated, pass go: both Portugal and Malta will gladly welcome you this summer. Yet the tightening of rules for UK arrivals to both countries will all but prohibit trips for those waiting for their second jab – unvaccinated people aged 12 or over won t be allowed into Malta. Plus, mainland Portugal is, of course, on the amber list (green-listed Madeira has different restrictions).
Sussex s answer to the Sistine Chapel ceiling (painted by a parishioner called Gary)
Rome is off the cards for now, so plan a summer trip to Goring-by-Sea, where you ll find a replica of Michelangelo s masterpiece
The reproduction in Goring-by-Sea, and the man behind it
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The Sistine Chapel has the most recognisable ceiling in the world, so it’s quite the surprise to find an exact replica of Michelangelo’s masterpiece in the church of a sleepy English seaside village. Painted on the vaulted ceiling of the English Martyrs Catholic Church in Goring-by-Sea by parishioner Gary Bevans, the Sistine Chapel of Sussex, as it’s predictably known, is a true magnum opus of art reproduction.