Porto, Portugal - Best European Destination 2014

Brussels-based non-profit organisation, European Consumers Choice, has just announced that the city of Porto, has again been elected Best European Destination 2014 in an on-line Poll.

More here: http://www.europeanbestdestinations.org/top/europe-best-destinations-2014/

This result, along with other awards that other Portuguese cities like Porto, Coimbra and Lisbon are regularly winning, shows that Portugal is a destination for all seasons and tastes and not just a summer destination for sand, sun and wine!

Força Portugal!!

Air Canada Rouge - Low-Cost to Europe, including Lisbon, Portugal.

Air Canada's low-cost venture "Rouge" will start transatlantic services from Montreal and Toronto to Europe as from May 2014.

Initial Site here: http://www.aircanada.com/rouge/en/

Project routes are:

From Montreal:

Barcelona - Start Date: June 4, 2014
Nice - Start Date: June 22, 2014
Rome - Start Date: May 25, 2014
Athens - Start Date: July 1, 2014

From Toronto:

Lisbon - Start Date: June 21, 2014
Barcelona - Start Date: May 8, 2014
Venice - Start Date: July 1, 2014
Athens - Start Date: July 1, 2014

Flybe launching - Porto(Portugal) to Birmingham(UK) route - April 2014.

This news is about a week old but have kept forgetting to write it up.

Flybe.com are starting a new route between Birmingham, United Kingdom and Porto, Portugal as from 12 April 2014.

There will be four flights each week.  

Lisbon, Portugal - Fado Restaurants

If you are looking for restaurants offering Fado in Lisbon, have a look at the following, all of which recently jointly advertised in the February 2014 edition of the easyjet.com flight magazine promoting the heritage of Fado:

www.cafeluso.pt

www.timpanas.pt

www.adegamachado.pt

Memories of Lisbon

Just found this on youtube.com

A wonderful historic video of Amalia Rodrigues performing in the Adega do Machado in the Bairro Alto in Lisbon in 1989.

Acabou de encontrar isso em youtube.com

Um vídeo histórico maravilhoso de Amalia Rodrigues realizando na Adega do Machado, no Bairro Alto, em Lisboa, em 1989.

Viens de trouver cette vidéo sur youtube.com

Une vidéo historique merveilleuse d'Amalia Rodrigues chanter dans la Adega do Machado dans le Bairro Alto à Lisbonne en 1989.

Flights direct from Seville to Berlin

The main low-medium cost airlines operating between Seville and Berlin are airberlin.com and vueling.com.

Although airberlin.com does operate some direct flights from some Spanish Airports to destinations in Germany, the bulk of its flights are via its large hub at Palma da Mallorca.

vueling.com also operates Seville to Berlin via its hub at Barcelona. 

Alternatively, one can consider flying via Malaga Airport. However, it takes 2 hours just to get to Malaga Central Station and then at least another 30 minutes to the Airport on the local urban rail service.

Easyjet.com, Germanwings.com and Airberlin.com operate Malaga to Berlin.

Horse riding opportunities in the Lisbon area.

I understand from a contact that the schools shown in the following link are located in the area of Cascais/Guinho which is +- 45 minutes  by car from Lisbon..

http://www.quintadamarinhahipico.com/schools.php

Trains from Salir do Porto to Porto and Lisbon

There is one connection per day from Salir do Porto to Porto requiring changes as follows:

14h51 Salir do Porto

15h41 Leiria

16h58 Leiria

18h10 Coimbra-B

18h33 Coimbra-B

19h35 Aveiro

19h47 Aveiro

20h35 Porto - Campanha

Takes over 5 hours.

There are two trains a day with connections to Lisbon as follows taking +- 3 hours:

Salir de Porto 12h59

Lisbon Entrecampos15h47

Salir de Porto 18h59

Lisbon Entrecampos 21h58

Transport from Lisbon, Portugal to Odeceixe

There is a coach daily departure from Lisbon by http://www.rede-expressos.pt/ as follows:

Lisbon Sete Rios Coach Station Dept: 17:30

Arrive Odeceixe: 21:05

There is a longer route which really only works on weekdays..

Take the bus, (renex.pt, rede-expressos.pt) or train (www.cp.pt) from Lisbon to Lagos and connect with a http://www.eva-bus.com/ service:

Dept     Arr

Lagos: Odeceixe:

08:45    10:01

13:45    15:07

16:40    17:58

18:20    19:38

19:15    20:33

Algarve - Musical instrument rental

A list of some businesses in the Algarve who undertake rental of musical instruments:

Faro

http://www.doremi-som.com/luz_som.php

Dó-Ré-Mi Cor & Musica Lda. - Som Instrumentos Musicais
Rua do Alportel nº 188 A/B
8000-291 Faro
Algarve - Portugal

Email : doremi.som@gmail.com

Telefone - +351 289 822 383
TM - +351 917 213 380 / 919 260 901

Albufeira

http://www.festadamusica.com/

A Festa da Música
Edificio Belavista
Loja 18
8200-083 Albufeira
Portugal

Tel: +351 289 515 897
E-mail: afestadamusica@sapo.pt

Portimão

http://portimusica.com/

PORTIMUSICA - Instrumentos Musicais
De: Hermenegildo Pedro Regino, Herdeiros

Urb. Boavista, Lote 4 c/v esq.
8500-303 Portimão
Portugal

E-mail: comercial@portimusica.com
Telefone: +351 282 416 814