Europhile: C'est ma vie!

Those nice old men at train stations.

Enter a new travelling guideline. Better yet, make it a rule. When nice old men at train stations offer to take you to their pension and assure you that you can do no better price or quality-wise, be assured that you can do better. Both price-wise and quality-wise.

Not that he wasn’t nice. And not that we paid too much. And we did get a free ride from the airport to the city. But the supposed 10-minute walk to the center took 35 minutes. And 1200 feet of elevation change.

We found a new hostel in Lisbon the next day. It was cute, in the center, and the same price.

posted by europhile @ 09:55