Porto Travel Forum

My husband and I will be participating in an English immersion program in La Alberca (a lovely place) for the 2nd time this September. After that, we need to get from La Alberca to Porto for a Douro River cruise. We have a few over 48 hours to do this.

From the train maps, it appears there is a path, through Salamanca to Coimbra to Porto. Would that be the best way to go or should we try one/more bus rides or even a rental car?

One challenge: my husband travels with a Segway (www.segway.com) to help him get around. Method of transport needs to accommodate it. We have flown with it to/from Madrid and other places and he's used it in La Alberca on the cobblestones and in parks on groomed trails.

After the cruise, we will need to get back to Madrid to catch a flight back to the U.S. I saw some ideas on that here, more?

So the itinerary would be either:

Detroit - Madrid - La Alberca - Avila/Salamanca - Porto - Madrid - Detroit

OR

Detroit - Porto - ?? La Alberca ?? - Porto - Detroit

MTIA

http://www.eurolines.es/portal/pdfs/portugal.pdf
Bus: Salamander - Porto, daily, 12:30-16:30, duration 5 hr (1 hr time change)
http://www.cp.pt/cp/displayPage.do?vgnextoid=87cbd5abe2a74010VgnVCM1000007b01a8c0RCRD&lang=en
Train: Salamander lv 4:51- ar 8:49 Coimbra B lv 9:31- ar 10:39 Porto Campanha 10:39 -duration 6:48

Hello,

To Oporto from La Alberca probably the best way is from Salamanca by bus or train. To do the river cruise you have trips all days that begins and ends in Oporto and the go back to Madrid why not take a low cost fly to Madrid. You have at least one each day from Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport. The price is very nice.

Nice trip...