British holidaymakers have returned to the sun-soaked beaches of Portugal, as the country seeks to revive its battered tourism industry after lifting travel restrictions that had been imposed to curb Covid-19.
Portugal imposed a strict two-month lockdown earlier this year to control a new wave of Covid-19 infections. It lifted restrictions on visitors from Britain and most European Union countries today.
Bea Wilkinson, a waitress from the northern English city of Manchester, spoke of her delight to have arrived on the first flight to Faro, on Portugal's southern Algarve coast. "I've been at home for five months.
The restrictions were really hard, and there's the constant rain," said Ms Wilkinson, as she sat at a cafe in the village of