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Dear Margaret and Laurie...
Thank you for your great 411 on traveling to the "French Way" from Lisbon. I feel confidant that my travels will be greatly easier with help from my newest found friends! Margaret, I've been checking on bringing bike's on the SUD expresso during my free time the last...
Hello again Margaret ;>}.
I feel confident that you will be the guide to my camino... you have answered every question that I have asked so far!
You are indeed a generous and kind soul... my pleasure to make your acquaintance!
My Question:
I will be traveling on a weekday from Lisbon Airport...
Special thanks again Margaret!
Sleeping car with our bikes sounds like the ticket for us!
My problem to overcome now is the size of the box allowed. I am contacting the train operator to re-check that box size; our bikes are a bit bigger than 3' in length... I'm hoping that I will be able to...
Thank you Margaret...
you have been so generous with your information and time.
I looked at both links, and the SUD express is the way I want to travel to France from Portugal. The other trains took between 18-38 hrs to travel to Southern France... Ouch, that hurts after my 17 hours of flight...
I recently found a much more reasonable plane fair from California in the U.S. to Lisbon Portugal, saving me at least $2000 U.S., So instead of landing in CDG France and working my way down to Bayonne, I will now be landing in Lisbon and traveling across Spain to Bayonne. QUESTION:
Can anyone...
Although I have never traveled to Europe before, I believed that the Bicycle culture that I had always heard about, seen on T.V. and read about was a European lifestyle. I was just slightly concerned when I read your thread reply..."I once biked into CDG."
buen camino,
James.
Is mountain biking into CDG more dangerous than biking out? Are the French courteous to cyclist, or just stop short of running you down like in the U.S.?
buen camino,
James.
Thank you Margaret for your all your help... people like you make all of our days pleasant to navigate as we translate various "threads" of our lives.
buen camino,
James.
Has anyone road their bikes from CDG to SJDP?
I was considering putting my bike back together in CDG when I land at 8am, and riding my bike out of the airport heading South to the 5th. District. I was then going to see the sights for a couple of days before catching a train South for SJDP. How...
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