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Hello, it's Thursday the 2nd of September and thanks for joining me, Simon Calder, for the latest on travel and destinations from the Green List and the travel desk of the Independent.

Today, Portugal opens up a bit. Australia closes down a bit more. And Russia may be back on the travel map soon.

Of course, this podcast is completely free,

as is my weekly travel email. You can sign up at independent.com.uk forward slash newsletters

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Portugal has announced that it is easing its requirements for unvaccinated visitors from the UK.

At the moment, if you are unvaccinated, until now at least, and you are going to Portugal,

you would have to self-isolate on arrival.

They are dropping that requirement, which was kind of what we were expecting in the sense that

we're going into autumn now.

There's a lot of competition between the various southern European countries for visitors,

and therefore we were expecting some

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