"La Dama Blanca" - Chilean Navy Sailing Vessel visiting Lisbon, Portugal

Purely by chance I was looking out of our current lodgings this morning over the Tejo estuary towards the Ponte 25 de Abril and Trafaria and had this wonderful view as a large 4-master four-masted barquentine entered Lisbon harbour.

 At first, I thought it was the Portuguese Navy's vessel, Sagres.

However, I then saw the vessel's ensign.

Turned out that the ship is the Armada de Chile's training vessel "Esmeralda". There is nothing like the lovely view of a sailing vessel entering a harbour like Lisbon! Enjoy!

EVA Transportes - Lagos to Lisbon

10:15 from Lagos to Lisbon Sete Rios.

Heading up the Alentejo.

Service 92.

Ryanair landing at Ponta Delgada, Açores (vídeo)

Excellent Video via lowcostportugal.net from Ryanair B737 on final approach along coastline of the Açores to Ponta Delgada (PDL) #azores #açores #groundlink


Voo Ryanair a aterrar em Ponta Delgada, Açores (vídeo) | Low Cost Portugal via @Linkis_com

Porto, Portugal - Public Transport Concessions awarded.

National daily observador.pt reports that the Portuguese Government has today awarded Porto Metro Concession to transdev.pt, and Porto STCP urban bus concession to alsa.es

More (in Portuguese) -

STCP para Alsa. Metro para Transdev - Observador via @Linkis_com

Ryanair's intentions for Faro Airport (FAO) summer 2016.

Article (in Portuguese) on Ryanair's intentions for Summer 2016 for Faro (FAO) base.



Noticias ao Minuto - Ryanair quer alcançar 1,9 milhões de passageiros em Faro em 2016 via @Linkis_com

Benagil Caves from Lagos,Algarve,Portugal

Praia da Benagil is about 35km from Lagos,Algarve,Portugal

The caves can only be accessed from the sea.

It is difficult to get to the area without a car.

This company does boat trips to the caves Armação da Pera..

https://www.facebook.com/algarvecaves

One can get buses from Lagos to Armação da Pera but they are not that frequent, especially at week-ends..

Check at the Bus Station in Lagos or at http://www.eva-bus.com/

Vista from Meia Praia towards Albadeira this afternoon.

http://www.meiapraiam.eu

Interview: Ryanair's CEO on Trans-Atlantic Service, In-Flight Wi-Fi and Unbundling – Skift via @Linkis_com

An interesting article about a recent Copenhagen interview with St. Michael of o'Leary! ;)))



Interview: Ryanair's CEO on Trans-Atlantic Service, In-Flight Wi-Fi and Unbundling – Skift via @Linkis_com

Dawn over Alvor

Dawn over Alvor from Meia Praia this morning.

http://www.meiapraiam.eu

Serpa - an great lunch stop when driving between Lisbon, Portugall and Seville, Spain

From Lisbon, one runs down the A2 motorway to the Algarve, until Juction 10, then turn left onto the IP8 national road towards Ferreira do Alentejo, then Beja and then the old Roman town of Serpa.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpa

Have lunch at the Molho Bico, just inside the city walls.

http://www.molhobicoserpa.com/

After lunch, run Serpa to Rosas de la Frontera, then Jabugal and then join la Ruta de la Plata E-803 till Sevilla.

Total trip time (non-stop) is about 5 hrs with Serpa located almost equidistant between Lisbon and Sevilla

According to google maps, the all motorway route via Evora and Badajoz is the fastest by about 20 minutes but by the time one gets ofs the motorways into either Evora or Tavira any time advantage is lost.

The good thing about the Serpa route is that it allows one to see parts of the Alentejo and Andalucia oft not visited by tourists.