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Our journey to Portugal’s second-largest city took As we boarded the train in Lisbon to Porto, we
four hours by train from Sintra, with a change in were very relieved to spy a couple of small luggage
Lisbon. On the first leg, there was no place to store compartments as well as overhead bins that could
bags so we put them on the seats nearby, which was handle carry-on-sized suitcases. While the train was
fine until the commuter train filled to standing room comfortable, clean and on time, the experience made
only. Perturbed fellow passengers gave us the evil eye me leery of future train travel with heavy bags. From
and a few choice words in Portuguese. Our survival the train station, it was an easy cab ride to our Airbnb
strategy was heads down and no eye contact for the rental. Cabs in Porto are clean and reasonable,
duration of the short connection. making Uber calls generally unnecessary.
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