Lach
We started the day at 6am in Porto, about 300Kms north of Lisbon. Fernando generously gave us a lift to the station. I didn’t realise people could drive that fast over cobble-stone streets. It was much appreciated as we were running a little late for the train to Lisbon. Once in Lisbon Rui kindly picked us up from the local metro station and drove us around town to pickup the last items for our ride.
We headed to the airline cargo bay to pickup our bike only to find them closed for a long lunch. We had lunch ourselves, got a lift back said our farewells to Rui and finally tried to pickup the bikes at 3pm. We then had three other pieces of paperwork to sign off, pay €30, then wait half an hour for the cargo men to bring us the bikes. Darkness had well and truely set in before we had finished putting the bikes together. We started our tour at 7pm.
To get out of the city quickly and safely we caught a train from central Lisbon to Sebtula, a town with a ferry crossing. This took us across to a spot about 16Kms from Comporta. We left the ferry terminal at about 10:30 and arrived to an empty town. We got some dinner from a local club and had a chat to a fisherman who suggested we sleep on the beach. And that we did. We setup camp next to an empty beachside restaurant and slept until the sun woke us in the morning.
