Just when we though we had ridden all of Lisbon's funiculars, we found another! Yesterday after a delicious lunch at ToB (To Burger or not To Burger) in the Chiado, we wandered further up hill - away from the Saturday crowds - and then started down toward the river where we discovered the Acensor do Bica. This one is smaller than the Gloria and Lavra, holding about 10 people. You don't pay on the car like with the others. Instead you pay at the bottom of the hill, before exiting to the street or before boarding for the trip up.
Speaking of paying for rides on public transportation, you can keep adding money to your ticket. That way rides on the Metro, trams, funiculars and ferries are quite a bit cheaper than paying separately each time you board. So for the funicular, a single ticket is 3.90 Euros. With the ticket it's only 1.4 Euros. There is also an unlimited ticket you can get for 14 Euros (senior citizen rate), that you have to renew each month. Since we are never sure how much we will ride, the regular ticket works for us.
Next week we are driving to Madrid for a couple of nights.
We had Tube tickets like that in London, the Oyster ticket. It was a learning experience, though. In London, if you don't scan your Oyster ticket upon exiting, you are charged a maximum fee as great as 7 Euros. This happened until we ran out of money on the ticket and learned the lesson the hard way. Then we added more than we needed because it was declared we could be refunded what we didn't use. Well, they failed to tell us that only British Credit cards and banks can be refunded. Do you need an Oyster card with 18 Euro on it?
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