Algarve to Lisbon - Train Stations

The train from the Algarve stop at two Stations in Lisbon - Entrecampos and Gare Oriente.

For Restauradores, leave the train at Entrecampos.

Take the Metro - Linha Amarela in the direction of Rato and descend at Marques de Pombal Station. Change to the Linha Azul direction Baixa Chiado and descend at Restauradores.

Note that if your intention is to catch the train to Sintra from Restauradores Station, this station is closed as the tunnel is being repaired. All trains from Lisbon to Sintra now leave from Entrecampos Station.

Tarifa to Lagos

The only option for getting by public transport from Tarifa to Lagos is by Bus via Seville. Note that between October and April, the direct buses from Seville to Lagos only operate on wekk-days. (Not week-ends nor public holidays.)

Timetable for coaches between Tarifa and Seville can be found here:

http://www.tgcomes.es/horarios_33_english.htm

Timetables for the DAMAS/EVA service can be found here
at Cubsur's excellent site:

http://thomasallen.home.sapo.pt/travel/001.htm

Opera - Portimão - late October 2007

There is an Opera Festival in Portimão between 16th and 27th October 2007.

Details in portuguese here:

Opera Portimão

Following comment in English courtesy of algarveholidayer....

" If you are in Portimão or Praia da Rocha between Tuesday16th and Saturday 27th October you might take the opportunity to go to the Opera in Portimão.

The programme starts with a Gala evening on Tuesday 16th October with arias from various famous Operas.
This is followed by La Traviata on the 19th & 20th October followed by Fidelio on the 23rd and then Tosca on the 26th and 27th.

All Operas start at 9.30PM and tickets can be obtained from the venue the Municipal Auditorium (this is at Avenida Miguel Bombarda; near the main tourist office in Portimão Avenida Zéca Afonso).

Entry fee is only 15 euros per show and tickets are available from the Auditorium box office from 2PM to 8PM now; except on the days of the performance when they can be bought from 10AM.

Enjoy !"

Ryanair - Flights from Faro and Porto

It seems like that Ryanair are cancelling various services in Mid-November including:

Porto - Dublin
Faro - Madrid

I have checked these on the Ryanair site and there are no flights coming up on these routes through April 2008.!!!

Transportation from Lagos to Lisboa on Sunday?

You may find the EVA Bus service from Lagos Bus Station to Lisbon Sete Rios Coach Station a bit quicker than the train at 3:45min.

There are Sunday departures as follows:

Dep. arr.

LAGOS LISBOA 07:45 11:30
LAGOS LISBOA 10:15 14:00
LAGOS LISBOA 12:45 16:30
LAGOS LISBOA 15:30 19:15
LAGOS LISBOA 18:15 22:00

See:

http://www.eva-bus.com

Travel from Porto to Lisbon

The shortest road distance between Lisbon and Porto and vice versa is 318km / 03h22min by car according to Michelin.

There are four ways to travel this route

Air - Expensive and only one operator TAP
Rail - The Best
Road - Car Hire - More interesting as you can stop en route.
Bus - Cheapest

See this link on my blog for more info on rail and bus which I recommend.

http://barlaventostravelblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/lisbon-to-porto.html

Jewish Contacts Algarve

You may find the following contacts of interest:

Services:

JEWISH RELIGIOUS NOTICES
Erev Shabbat Services.
Algarve
Tel: 00 351 282416710

and

http://www.jewish-heritage-europe.org/country/portugal/portugal.htm

Sintra to Cabo da Roca

The following is the Winter 2006/2007 bus timetable from Scotturb for the bus service Sintra - Cabo da Roca - Cascais

Car Parking in Lisbon and Porto

Hi!

You best bet for parking in Lisbon coming from the North is to head towards Gare Oriente Rail/Bus Station/Vasco da Gama Centre. This is near the airport bordering the Tejo and has the advantage as being linked to the Metro (Linha Vermelha), and the suburban rail network.

From there you can get the Metro to Alameida Station and there change to the Linha Verde from where you can get easily to Rossio/Baixa Chiado for the centre of the old town.

Any way you come definitely avoid driving into Lisbon. Park and use the Metro/Suburban Rail Services.

You can find the metro site in English here:

http://www.metrolisboa.pt/Default.aspx?tabid=271

As regards Porto, I do not know the city as well as Lisbon and the South. However, there are plenty of reports that traffic there is bad as well.

If driving I would suggest that you head for the F.C. Porto (Estádio do Dragão ) football stadium and find parking near there. Thereafter you can use the the Light Metro System to travel around.

See the following reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porto_Metro

Another option as regards Porto is to take the train.

According to the current CP timetable, there is a morning departure as follows:

Leiria 7h10 Porto Campanha 9h44
(Change in Coimbra)
22 Euros one way 2nd Class

There is a return at:

Porto 17h45 Leiria 20h21

I think this would be an option to consider as it only takes 2hrs 36 mins, would avoid paying motorway tolls, take you the centre of Porto and avoid a lot of stress.

Hope this helps.

Check out my blog at

http://barlaventostravelblog.blogspot.com/

where you may find further info of interest.

Lisbon to Porto - Public Transport

Hi!

Train timetables:

Go to my blog

http://barlaventostravelblog.blogspot.com/

Scroll down on the right hand side till you come to the panel:

"Algarve & Portugal - Travel Transport Links"

Click on:

"Porto - Lisbon - Porto Train Timetable"

You will then be able to download the timetable for this route from the Portuguese Railways website.

2) Bus timetables:

Go to my blog

http://barlaventostravelblog.blogspot.com/

Scroll down on the right hand side till you come to the panel:

"Algarve & Portugal - Travel Transport Links"

Click on:

"RENEX Bus Service - Lisbon to Porto timetable"

You will then be able to download the timetable for this route from the Renex Coach company website.

There are also regular buses throughout the day from Lisboa Sete Rios Coach Station to Porto operated by Rede Expressos.

Unfortunately, the Rede Expressos site is horribly designed, only works in Internet Explorer and is in Portuguese. I do not normally handle requests for this company's timetables, because despite requests to them, they have not made it possible for users of computers without Internet Explorer installed to use their site

Please note that these timetables are the latest but may always change over the winter.