The International Transport Game

[Bodie]

At 1600 a 460 bus takes us to Terminal 2 where we arrive at 1615 on Thursday afternoon.

Source: Google Maps

 

[johnnychips]

From this bus station, we take the 1620 SMTU 418 service to Ceasa arriving at 1703 on Thursday afternoon.

This is the 'meeting of the waters', the confluence of the Rios Negro and Solimoes, one clear, the other brown, the actual source of the Amazon proper.


Google Maps

 

[Bodie]

This is where I wanted to reach. In the hope of getting a ferry here. I can't find any kind of timetable or even a estimate of how long the crossing is.

Our Amazon quest reached we retrace our steps.

1724 sees us take a 706 bus to Terminal Praca Matriz arriving 1830 on Thursday evening.

Source: Google Maps

 

[Bodie]

Bumping this up

 

[johnnychips]

We take the 580, 1843 service to Manaus Avenida Torquato Tapajos 2764 arriving 1931 on Thursday evening.

There is a connecting bus from here to the airport

Google Maps

 

[DasLunatic]

Let's get back to Europe...

We take up johnnychips' offer of the connection back to the airport. That connection comes in the form of a Number 641 bus to Alameda Santos Dumont, 1876 (Manaus), departing at 1939 and arriving at 1951 this Thursday evening.

As above

 

[johnnychips]

I don't think there are direct flights to Europe, so...

We take the 2359 American Airlines Flight AA964 from Manaus (MAO) to Miami International Airport (MIA) arriving at 0424 on Friday Morning.

We've already visited Miami, so hopefully there should be connecting flights to somewhere else.

https://www.skyscanner.net

 

[Bodie]

At this early time of day our transfer is effortless.
We are soon bound for a part of the world we have not yet explored that much... Central America.

At exactly 0500 our aircraft operating Copa Airlines 173 pushes back and we fly to Tocumen Intl, Panama City, Panama arriving 0808 local time on Friday morning.

Source: flightstats.com

 

[johnnychips]

We walk five minutes to the stop San Antonio 1 and take a numberless bus, destination Policia Nacional 1 provided by MiBus at 0840 to Estacion Maranon (Bay C) arriving at 0937 on Friday Morning.

This seems pretty central, only a couple of minutes walk to the Metro station, bus connection to the end of the Panama Canal

Google Maps

 

[Bodie]

Help! - I cannot find any timetables to get us on the move again.

 

[johnnychips]

Google Maps: it didn't take more than two minutes to find a bus back to the airport, though they do not have numbers, a bit like East Kent in the 60s.

 

[Bodie]

Nothing for it but to return to the airport.
At 1000 we join another MiBus service to San Antonio 1 (for Tocumen International) arriving 1057 on Friday morning.

Source: As johnnychips' post

 

[johnnychips]

We take Copa Airlines CM311 1157 flight to Boston Logan Airport (BOS) arriving 1735 on Friday evening

Source: Flightradar24 App

 

[Bodie]

A swift transfer has us heading East aboard Aer Lingus 136 which left Logan at 1825 and will arrive at Dublin Airport at 0520 on Saturday morning.

Source: flightstats.com

 

[johnnychips]

We take the Bus Eireann X12 0600 service to Busaras, Dublin's main bus station, arriving 0630 on Saturday morning

Google Maps

 

[A Challenge]

Get the 06:37 Red Line service to Red Cow (what an odd name!), arriving at 07:08 on Saturday morning.

 

[Bodie]

It certainly is. Does it come from the hotel, which would have been all that was really there before the building of the large road interchange?
Red cows as far as the eye can see, now just cars and the odd tram.
Just noticed the tram line is also Red!

We head back into central Dublin on this Red Line at 0721 and arrive at Heuston at 0739 on Saturday morning.

Source: Google Maps

 

[A Challenge]

Walk to Outside Heuston Railway Station and get the 07:49 Dublin bus service 25B to Trinity College, Northern Ireland Tourist Board, arriving at 08:00 on Saturday morning.

 

[Bodie]

No time to admire the college we are soon on our way aboard Dublin bus number 145 at 0812 bound for my surname town better known as Loughlinstown, Loughlinstown Hospital where we arrive at 0842 on Saturday morning.

Source: Google Maps

Never ceases to amaze me where we get to in this game. I should visit in RL, I wonder if Loughlin's get discounted travel?

 

[johnnychips]

We take the 0849 Dublin Bus 84 service to Bray Station arriving at 0910 on Saturday morning.

Google Maps

 

[Bodie]

We are very much enjoying the views of the coast so we continue South.

At 1017 our latest train, one run by Irish Rail pulls away and we alight at Rossclare Europort station at 1226 on Saturday afternoon.

 

[me123]

We take to the high seas, and board MS Epsilon on her 15:30* Irish Ferries sailing from Rosslare Europort bound for France. We are offered a comfortable berth for the night, and partake of the ship's amenities (which appears to consist of a bar). Hungover, we arrive in Cherbourg at 11:30 on Sunday morning.

Source: Irish Ferries

*Which is within the half-hour interchange time + 3 hours rule.

 

[johnnychips]

Ingenious!

We take the 1143 SNCF TER train to Caen, arriving 1255 on Sunday afternoon

www.sncf.com

 

[me123]

At 13:07 we board the SNCF Intercités train numero 3342, destination Paris. We leave the train at Bernay at 13:53 on Sunday afternoon.

Source: SNCF

 

[Firsttimer]

Just found this thread. It's fantastic

 

[johnnychips]

Just found this thread. It's fantastic

Do join in!

 

[Bodie]

Yes, Firsttimer do join.

Seems we have found ourselves in a sleepy French town on a Sunday afternoon.
We thus cure our hangover in a nearby cafè, with a good strong Coffee or three.

Much refreshed and very much wide awake we stroll down to the gare (picking up the lingo already) and step aboard...

... SNCF Intercités train number 3346 which leaves at 1653 and we alight a short while later at Evreux Normandie the time being 1718 on Sunday.

Source: reiseauskunft.bahn.de

 

[me123]

Nous arrivons ici, dans cette belle ville de France. Maintenant, nous pouvons parler français. Nous voyagons avec TransUrbain service numéro T1, qui depart la station à 17:52 aujourd'hui. Nous voyageons à Molière, en arrivant à 18h06 le dimanche soir.

We arrive here, in this beautiful French town. Now, we can speak French. We travel with Transurbain service T1, which leaves the station at 17:52 today. We travel to Molière, and arrive at 18:06 on Sunday evening.

Source: Transurbaine

 

[johnnychips]

As the other bus service to Moliere doesn't operate on Sunday, we are forced to jump back on the bus we have taken (OK with rules as it is the terminus) and thus take the 1808 T1 Transurbaine service to Pole d'Echanges Jean Jaures in Evreux, arriving at 1822 on Sunday evening

This is near the station

Source: Transurbaine website

 

[A Challenge]

Shouldn't we wait 5 minutes?