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

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’. It was something that played out in the ICU at St. Thomas’s just the other day.

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’. It was something that played out in the ICU at St. Thomas’s just the other day.

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.