We woke at 6 A.M. Took a Shower, breakfast and so on...
Then we left at home at 7:15 A.M to catch the Metro at 7 :28 A.M at the House of Music stop ( Casa da Musica) direction Airport line E.
From Casa da Musica to the airport you to buy the "Andante" Card 50 cents and to recharge the card for Z4 its 4 zones. We took more or less 15 minutes to arrive to the aereoport.
This card its what garantees your mobility at Oporto city. You can step in Buses, metro and train.
So you first have to buy it at the machines availabe in every metro station. It costs 0,50 €. Then you have to recharge the card with one trip or several or you can buy a daily pass.
The trips are according with the zones you travel in. If you looking at the map figure that yo'll travel 2 zones you will have to buy the Z2 option, buy or recharge what best suits you and so on and so on.
Here's the map.
BE CAREFUL! ITS ONE CARD FOR PERSON. IF YOU BUY TEN TRIPS Z2 YOU CANNOT RECHARGE THE CARD WITH FOR EXAMPLE Z3 UNTIL YOU HAVE SPENT THE 10 TRIPS Z2. IF YOU WISH TO TRAVEL TO A FARTHER ZONE YOU WILL HAVE TO BUY ANOTHER CARD.
Finally when you are ready to enter validate you ticket on the yellow validators. You will see that a green light appears if it's all ok. At the stations you'll see that there aren't doors you can pass to the lines without any control. ????? Yeah we in Oporto trust in your responsability and then so often you will find train supervisors that will ask you the ticket. If you don't have it you will pay a fine (€€€€€) a large fine.
Every time that you change line you have to validate your ticket again.
THE METRO STATION AT THE AIRPORT
Its right in front of it. you have to go down the stairs cross the tunel in the auto park and then go up again on the stairs until you arrive at the departures level.
The Oporto aereoport its called Airport Francisco Sá Carneiro. Do you want to know more? http://www.porto-airport.com/
Arriving at the airport because i would travel with Ryan Air i didn't have to do any kind of luggage check in so we went directly to the security check. Having no problems here we had only to wait for the opening of the gates. Because it was the first time that we went by metro we didn't want to risk and we arrived two hours earlier! HO MY GOD! What to do? Stores, tablets, bathroom, computers with free internet....
Ok the time passed the gate 34 opened. Our tickets were checked and there we went to the flight FR 2929 to Brussels . We were on seats 20 A and 20 B just above the wings.
The weather was nice so we didn't have any problem taking off. Two hours after we were landing in the international airport of Brussels. Is a big one!
From the arrival until we arrived at the train station we took 10 min. The train station is situated on -1 floor.
In front of you you have the tickects office and the machine to buy tickets.. On each side the stairs to the train platforms.
Its all in French or in Flemish. huuuuuuuuuuu. It take us a lite bit to understand how it worked.
I'm a machine person so my first instinct was to direct my legs to the machine. First thing to notice it only accecpts coins or cards. The rest is very intuitivy like certanly exists in yor country. I bought to tickets to Brussels Noord Station. 8,90 € each. And then we went down to platform 3 to catch the IC train that takes more or less 8 minutes. OK the train is leaving see you on arrival at Noord station.
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