I need to travel to Lisbon to get a new German passport. Bus, rail or air? To go by bus I would have to go to Porto to the Campanha rail station which is a long way off. I can get on the train in Vila Nova de Gaia so that decided going by train.
I researched the public transport to go to the station. Here the metro is great and simple while there are innumerable bus lines which are hard to figure out. They tell you the start and end station but the Devesas station is not at the end of any line. Google map gives several choices all of which involve a lot of walking but at least now I know one bus that stops nearby, the 904!
The problem with Google maps is that it has no combined route with bus and metro, only bus and walking OR metro and walking (drive and walk are also options). Knowing the bus that stops at station I figured the best route:
- Walk two blocks to a nearby bus stop
- Take the 9001 bus to João de Deus
- Take the Metro to General Torres
- Take the 904 to the Devesas station
BTW, that’s a single fare!
The train itinerary documentation is awful, complicated and the lettering tiny but the clerks selling tickets are super helpful. July 2 trip to Lisbon all arranged. This is all new to me, back home in Caracas I drove most of the time.
The Captain