Locals earning Portugal's monthly minimum wage of 557 euros say they are being priced out of neighbourhoods that they have lived in for decades. Da Cunha, who was paying 220 euros a month, said she cannot afford anything on today's market.

Yes, any non-EU citizen must have a valid passport to enter Portuguese territory.

It now gives up to 90 days to explore the country - from the wine lands around Table Mountain and the surfing beaches of Durban to the arty, urban scene in Johannesburg. Better still, while visitors need to show a negative Covid test to enter South Africa, there is no quarantine on arrival.

"I was born in Lisbon and raised in Lisbon, and now there's just no place for me in Lisbon," said da Cunha, who relies on a monthly government subsidy of 485 euros ($575) to top up her earnings selling handicrafts to tourists.

"If things continue like this, pretty soon you won't have a single Portuguese person living here," he said, adding that souvenir shops hawking porcelain sardines and cork handbags have replaced local pharmacies, bakeries and grocery stores.

There was a message to the three million followers on Pele's official Twitter account, too: 'Inspiration and love marked the journey of King Pele, who peacefully passed away today. Love, love and love, forever.'

A top tip is to make for the Khao Sok National Park, where you can hike through some of the oldest evergreen forests on the planet before taking a boat ride past jagged peaks of rock rising almost vertically out of the ocean.

LISBON, Oct 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Carla da Cunha has a tight budget with which to find a new home in Portugal's newly-fashionable capital, Lisbon, or else she and her two children could be out on the streets.

Experts say that as well as the chance to get to know a destination properly, a long-stay holiday can offer great value. A deep discount can normally be negotiated with a hotel or apartment, and escaping tourist traps and using local supermarkets and restaurants will also make holiday money go further.

The idea is that travellers can start off slowly, exploring the golden temples and palaces, the reclining Buddhas and madcap markets of Bangkok before heading out to tour the country's interior and islands at their leisure.

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"Last year was our best year ever, and this year is on track to be even better," she said, adding that six out of 10 of her clients were foreign, with Brazilians, French, Turks and Chinese topping the list of buyers from 43 nations.

In an open letter to the government, the campaign group Morar em Lisboa or 'Living in Lisbon' said local communities that give colour and life to the city are on the verge of collapse and called for rent controls to be introduced.

Would you like to spend a few months visiting the farmers' markets and waterside restaurants of sunny Cape Town? Or to really take your time experiencing life amid the skyscrapers and shopping malls of Dubai? Then the new generation of long-stay tourist visas are worth a look.

Perhaps surprisingly, the one part of the world where long-stay holidays are set to get harder is Europe - and that's before the news that we may be denied entry altogether due to our high Covid count. From New Year's Day, countries in the Schengen area, which include tourist favourites France, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece, will limit the number of days sun-loving Britons can spend there visa-free.

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The new rules set the maximum stay at 90 days in any six-month period, and it will have implications for those who like to escape the gloomy British winter by spending our coldest months golfing on the Algarve or relaxing on Spanish beaches. Do that for the first (and coldest) three months of 2021 and the new rules mean you will not be able to enter any Schengen country again (even for a day trip) till July.

It said speculation has been driven by a golden visa programme, which gives Portuguese residency to foreign buyers who spend at least 500,000 euros on real estate, allowing them to travel freely within Europe's 26-country Schengen zone.