We have hired a personal driver to take us from Porto to Lisbon thinking that we'd like to make some stops along the way. We have all day to get to Lisbon on a Saturday in mid-October. We were thinking of stopping in Aveiro, Coimbra, Nazare, and Obidos. Is that too ambitious? Should we skip some or add other stops? Thanks in advance!
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Republic of Texas / U.S.A. / Magyarország / Budapest
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Go to DayTrip.com and put in the two cities and see what they offer. That would be a good start point for the research.
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Arctophilia, Northamptonshire, England
35877 posts
since you have already hired the driver, perhaps ask her or him what they suggest?
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Republic of Texas / U.S.A. / Magyarország / Budapest
24236 posts
Daytrip suggests Coimbra, Aveiro, Batalha, Obidos, Pena Palace in Sintra, Fatima and Nazare. Their site tells a little about each. Not suggesting you use DayTrip, just mine their data. Without stops they charge 339€ for the trip.
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Brooklyn, NY
4793 posts
You could definitely see Obidos is an hour. It consists of one Main Street from one end to the other. We were there for maybe an 1.5 hour and just stopped for an ice cream. It was very crowded. Maybe in October it will be less so and you would move faster.
Other posters like Coimbra, maybe that could be your second stop. It doesn’t take you far off your route, if at all.
Our other stops were Fatima (2hours cause we attended Mass), Alcobaca (1 hour to see the monastery and church, was there at lunch time, every place, and I mean everyplace closed, no food), Tomar (our base, the Templar Castle could be seen in an hour).
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OP
Boston, MA USA
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Thank you for the tip regarding DayTrip.com. Definitely will check into it. We will also ask our driver but wanted to get the input of this esteemed group as well! We decided we are fine with skipping Fatima but are interested in seeing a couple of coastal towns on way down hence the interest in Aveiro and Nazare. Definitely Coimbra as well.
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Republic of Texas / U.S.A. / Magyarország / Budapest
24236 posts
I love the places in between destinations and I have used Daytrip a few times as a source to begin researching places to stop. And, I actually hired them a few times. But even if traveling by train their suggestions are generally very good. Just another tool.