Dear colleagues,

Complementing my last message which was concerned with the hotel booking for our TC6 meeting in Coimbra let me give you also some preliminary travel directions to Coimbra.

You can fly either to Lisboa or Porto airport. Porto is 100 km away from Coimbra and Lisboa 200 kms. You need to take a train to go either from Porto or Lisboa to Coimbra.

The best connection between both airports and the respective train stations is by taxi. In Porto I was informed that the taxi should cost about 20 €.. In Lisboa the maximum fare should be in the same order of magnitude or, even less. Probably in May you might have available a brand new metro connecting the Porto airport to the train station, but not in Lisboa.

There are several train stations in Lisboa and Porto. You should go to the Campanhã train station in Porto and to the Oriente train station in Lisboa. These are the most suitable ones to go to Coimbra, although other alternatives are possible. In Coimbra the train arrives in Coimbra-B. From there you can either take a local train (included in the ticket price) to Coimbra city center or follow directly to your hotel.

I give you a link to the Portuguese train company so that you can check the best connections available. I am afraid that the timetable of May is not yet fixed, but you might have a close idea of the possibilities by looking at the available timetables there:

http://www.cp.pt/cp/displayPage.do?vgnextoid=87cbd5abe2a74010VgnVCM1000007b01a8c0RCRD&lang=en

Later on I might send you more detailed travel directions if required.

Best regards

Augusto Casaca