Скачать или смотреть From Porto Home - the Movie, April 5-21 2024

I had a three week holiday last spring, which we first used to visit some relatives in London:
   • Short London Prelude, March 30 - April 4 2024  

Then we flew to Porto in Northern Portugal - from now on taking only land transport to get home to Vienna, Austria.
We stayed a week in Porto with two excursions into Douro River Valley which still is dominated by rustic Comboios de Portugal (CP) class 1400 diesels (based on British class 20). We also visited the northern border with Spain along the Minho River, CP class 2600 "Nez-Cassée" electrics operate on the Linha do Minho.
An Alfa Pendular highspeed (220 kph) train took us to Lisbon, where we stayed a couple of days in the old town district of Alfama.
Last stay in Portugal was in Tavira on the East Algarve southern coast, which we reached via Faro. From there we took the only non-railway (ALSA bus) connection to Seville. The following day, the longest distance was covered by three highspeed (300 kph) RENFE AVE / AVLO trains to Madrid, Barcelona and Narbonne.
We visited the impressive fortress city of Carcassonne for a whole day, then continued to Geneva via Lyon by SNCF TGV and TER. The final leg of the journey took us back home via Zürich and over the Arlberg Pass by Railjet through partial snow storms - after experiencing 30 degree heat for a week in southern Portugal and Spain.

0:00 start
0:15 Douro Valley, class 1400 diesel power
9:31 Linho do Minho, class 2600 "Nez-Cassée"
11:35 Porto heritage tram
12:04 ride to Lisbon, Lisboa Santa Apolónia station
14:00 Lisbon trams
14:57 ride to Faro and Tavira
17:52 class 0450 DMU based on Budd railcar, Trilho do Barril narrow gauge line to the beach
18:43 bus ride to Seville, tram in Seville
20:08 Sevilla Santa Justa station, AVE and IRYO (Frecciarossa 1000) trains
21:31 AVE ride to Madrid
22:46 Madrid Puerta de Atocha station
23:49 AVLO ride to Barcelona
24:55 AVE Barcelona Sants - Narbonne
26:43 flamingos from a train at Port-la-Nouvelle, Carcassonne
27:10 TGV Carcassonne - Lyon Part-Dieu
28:49 TER Lyon - Geneva
31:48 IC Genève - Zürich HB with snow in April
36:02 Railjet Zürich - Vienna across Arlberg Pass