Photos of Portugal - from the SudExpress  Add/Read Comments

The fun part though was getting to Lisbon in the first place. No cheapie EasyJet from Luton option for us (I travelled with DougieBoy who has written up a little post on the same) instead a rather more romantic, individualistic, adventurous method of transportation - the train.

Beginning at the St. Pancras Champagne Bar on the Thursday morning - we had to start the day in style - the EuroStar took us to Paris Gare du Nord, a hop on the metro down to a waiting TGV at Gare Montparnasse that screamed us down to the Spanish border, then a walk across the platform to the waiting SudExpress (trains are so much better when named!) which was the overnighter to Lisbon. We arriving at 11 the next morning. So simple, so easy and so much more exciting than an 'plane. More expensive obviously but with a drop of Taittinger and a little red Burgundy to wash down a grandiose picnic the whole journey was sublime.

These pictures were taken really early in the morning as we crossed into Portugal. Incredible fog, low light levels and exceptionally grubby windows does not make for decent photo opportunities but these I think are about passable, imparting as they do a sense of movement. Not at all my usual 'style' but evocative none-the-less in an out-of-focus, monochromatic way.