Tuesday Oct 7, 2025 Lisbon to Lagos

Flew out at 600pm on TAP airlines - cheaper than Air Canada.
The negative was we had a 15 minutes bus ride to where plane was parked. In Lisbon we also took a bus to the airport.

Simcard problems - arrived at 6:00am, the train wasn’t until 10:00am so had lots of time. Problem was I couldn’t turn on data roaming so couldn’t get data on either of our phones. I had a European simcard & Peter had a $70 package from Rogers.

Solution - Settings / cellular / under that is Sims - tap it to see data roaming, and turn it on. Once you know it - it's easy. . . .

Subway in Lisbon is just outside the airport. Ticket purchase was complicated - finally figured it out - plus have to save card to exit.

We took the Subway to Orient station - 3 stops. Trains were up 3 floors. Arrived early so went to Hotel Tivoli on the main street to left. Peter got free breakfast. I was too stressed out about my SIM card so just had coffee. After lots of emails to Sim Corner and googling I finally got both phones working. What a relief.

We had reserved seats on the train, and knew we had to change trains in Tunes, but didn't see that as a destination. Turns out the destination is Faro, and Tune is before that. We found our seats but were surrounded by screaming kids. Not a good start. . . .

We arrived 35 minutes late in Tunes but fortunately the train to Lagos was there. 😄 Only 45 minutes to Lagos, but several stops on route.

Walked to our Air BnB. Spacious, 2 bedroom, 2 baths, only problem was the scaffolding outside the window. Emailed Renalgest about that - reply “They are professionals - no worries. “

Wandered about that day to get our bearings. Rented bikes from Valter at Rent a Bike. Had dinner at Instinyo on the boardwalk of the Marina - lovely setting but food wasn't anything special. Decided we’d eat most of our meals at home.Leggi altro