Europe '25

I guess an easy travel day, but had some frustrations. We usually think of train travel as super easy, stations are commonly easy to navigate, no TSA security, etc. So we timed ourselves accordingly.

Took an Uber to the station, not sure whether Bill set us to the wrong place, or Uber driver was lazy. But we ended up at the huge Porto intermodal station. Loads of signage, but still not clear where our train platform was. And no attendants to talk to. We went all the wrong places, then figured out we had to high-tail it a quarter mile to another set of platforms. We just made it before our planned departure. But the train was late so whew.

Then the train cars had no numbers, so we got on the wrong car, as did many others, which caused a major traffic jam in the aisles. So we ended up hanging out in the space between cars for ~20 min before finding our seats. Oh well.

Then we realized the soccer game we bought tix to had been rescheduled to tonight! So we got settled, then headed out. Such a fun night!!! Benfica won 🥰Read more