Lisbon Airport to Sete Rios Bus Station

To get from Lisbon Airport to Lisbon Long distance Coach Station take the following bus which leaves from outside the Arrivals hall:

(Aeroshuttle - Copy of note from current Lisbon Airport website.) Aeroshuttle (CARRIS Nº96) - Available everyday, every 30 minutes between 7am and 11pm, the aeroshuttle connects Gare Oriente - Airport - Entrecampos - Sete Rios Coach Station - Praça de Espanha.

Tickets (3,50€) can be purchased onboard and also in the Tourism Office at arrivals (public area).

Tel. +351 213 582 334)

Transit time about 20 minutes.

Summer 2010 - Easyjet - Faro - Geneva

Thanks to Sergio Bastos of lowcostportugal.net for this.

Easyjet have indicated that they will begin operating direct flights on Tursdays and Saturdays between Faro and Geneva in April 2010. The schedule will run through until October 2010.

Earthquake off Sagres - Felt in Lagos

We were woken up in Lagos overnight at about 01:30 by an earthquake of 6.1 magnitude on the Richter scale. The quake was located at a depth of 31 kilometres and about 100km South West of Sagres under the Atlantic.

National press this morning reports no substantial damage, injuries or loss of life anywhere in Portugal. This is probably because of the depth of the even in the earthscrust, The Tremor continued for about 2 minutes, with decreasing instensity and was probably the same in sensed intensity as the one I experience in Lisbon as a child in 1968/69.

Aftershocks have continued through the night in the same regions but with much less intensity ranging between 1.3 and 2.3 on the Richter Scale.

Links here:

http://www.meteo.pt/pt/sismologia/actividade/

http://economico.sapo.pt/noticias/sismo-atinge-portugal_76938.html

We were very lucky that the depth of the event substantially lessened the potential impact of the event. Thanks to the Management upstairs for sparing us!

Right back to work.

NB: 11:21 17/12/2009

Portuguese Met Office server http://www.meteo.pt appears to have crashed owing to overload.

NB: 11:47 17/12/2009

USGS (United States Geological Survey) Data and Report on Quake here:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2009qhac.php#details

NB: 12:19 - Earthquake Strongest felt since that of 1969

http://sol.sapo.pt/PaginaInicial/Sociedade/Interior.aspx?content_id=157315

Faro - Now the Bad News... Flyglobespan has gone bust!

Just seen this.......

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8417183.stm

Ryanair - New Base - Faro - 14 new routes

Ryanair have announced this morning that they will be basing 6 new aircraft at Faro Airport in the Algarve creating their 39th base.

See:

http://www.ryanair.com/en/news/rte-en-161209-4

and

http://bit.ly/6hzi6L

New routes being introduced between March and April will include:

Faro – Billund (30 Março) – Dinamarca
Faro – Marselha (30 Março) – França
Faro – Birmingham (28 Março) – Inglaterra
Faro – Maastricht (27 Março) – Holanda
Faro – Derry (30 Março) – Irlanda do Norte
Faro – Munich (Memmingen) (27 Abril) – Alemanha
Faro – Milão (Bergamo) (25 Março) – Itália
Faro – Kerry (30 Março) – Irlanda
Faro – Oslo (Rygge) (30 Março) – Noruega
Faro – Knock (30 Março) – Irlanda
Faro – Paris (Beauvais) (27 Abril) – França
Faro – Madrid (27 Abril) – Espanha
Faro – Estocolmo (Skavsta) (30 Março) – Suécia

Faro - Shannon is being dropped.

Faro - Porto is being increased to a daily frequency.

Online Traffic and Traffic Works Information - Portugal

The National Roads Authority of Portugal, Estradas de Portugal, have today launched a new portal with real time news on roadworks and traffic congestion throughout Portugal including live camera feeds from various road side cameras throughout the countryside.

The site (in portuguese) can be found here:

http://www.estradas.pt/

Ryanair - Michael O’Leary - Press Conference - Faro on Wednesday

Late-breaking news!

According to press reports - Michael O'Leary and Daniel Carvalho of Ryanair will be holding a press conference at Faro Airport on Wednesday morning, 16 de Dezembro 2010.

See:

http://www.lowcostportugal.net/uncategorized/michael-oleary-em-faro-na-quarta-feira/2009/12/

Speculation is that there will be announcement of new routes to Faro and/or establishment of a Ryanair base at Faro.

What is the cheapest way to travel from Lisbon to Brussel?

At present there are only two airlines operating between Lisbon and Brussels.

TAP Air Portugal- http://www.flytap.com/Portugal/pt/Homepage

Brussels Airlines - http://www.brusselsairlines.com/com/

You may be lucky and be able to book a reasonably priced flight with either of the two given the time of year you wish to travel.

However, the cheapest way may be to take an early morning trains from Lisbon to Porto, get the metro to the airport and take the Ryanair.com flight from Porto to Charleroi in Belgium. Ryanair call this airport Brussels Charleroi but it is 60km from Brussels. However, there are buses from Charleroi Airport to Brussels.

There is a flight as follows:

Wed, 10 Fev 10

Flight FR 1387

11:30 Departs Porto

14:50 Arrives Charleroi

At present, the price is shown as 14,99 EUR.

BUT!! remember with Ryanair you have to pay for your luggage, credit card use etc.

As regards a train there is an 06:09 train from Lisbon Gare Oriente arriving in Porto at 08:44. This should give you enough time to get the Metro to the Airport. The ticket price will be in the order of 30.00 EUR.

You need to check the total cost of this option against the price of a direct flight to Lisbon.

I should also add that while long distance bus or train are an option, they will take over 24 hours and are likely to be as expensive or more expensive than the ryanair option mentioned above.

Public transportation/private vans from huelva spain to faro in portugal

There are three times daily public bus services from Huelva Bus Station to Faro City Centre as follows:

Eva Transportes/DAMAS S.A. - http://bit.ly/8xskTh

Huelva Faro 08:45* 10:10
Huelva Faro 17:30* 18:55
* Spanish Time

Alsa.es

Huelva Faro 01:30* 02:15

* Spanish Time

Private Transfer operator Low-cost-transfers.com can also assist with transport on this route. This could be particularly useful if you are heading to Faro Airport as with the public buses you will still need to get by cab or local bus to Faro Airport if that is your final destination.

See their page here:

http://www.low-cost-transfers.com/faro-airport/index.php

Make sure you scroll down to the bottom of the Departure drop down box to find Huelva.

Algarve - Easyjet New Route - Doncaster (Robin Hood) to Faro

Easyjet announced yesterday that they will commence flights from Doncaster Robin Hood Airport to Faro Airport April 19.

Report Here:

http://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/free/BREAKING-NEWS-easyJet-touches-down.5900952.jp