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TOP 10 THINGS TO DO IN PORTO, PORTUGAL

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Bridge Dom Luis I  Clerigos Church Crystal Palace Gardens Palacio da Bolsa Wine Tours Praça da Liberdade Church of Santa Clara See the Street Art See the Breathtaking views Serralves -Alan 

TIPS FOR USING THE METRO IN PARIS

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Buy tickets At the counter or in the automatic machines. Single tickets or a batch of 10 (cheaper). Have your ticket ready when going in   The last thing you want is a bunch of Parisians shouting at you for making them wait because you had to look for your ticket. Don’t throw your ticket away you might need it if you’re transferring lines or if there’s control in that station. Plan the quickest route Transportation time can get long, you don’t want to spend all of your holidays in the metro. Watch out for strikes The French love their strikes and sometimes these can ruin the entire day for commuters. Google it or visit the RATP website to get a hold of what lines/services will be off Avoid rush hours 8am-10am and 5pm-8pm, it gets crazy! Familiarize yourself with the city and some of the lines Sometimes is better to spend 15 minutes walking on the seine and 10 minutes in the metro, than 10 minutes of walking & waiting in the underground passagewa

Free Museums & Monuments in Paris

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Free All Year Museum of Modern Art 11 avenue du Président Wilson, Paris 16th - Metro Iéna Balzac’s Home 47 rue Raynouard, Paris 16th - Metro Passy Ennery Museum 59 avenue Foch, Paris 16th - Metro Porte Dauphine Bourdelle Museum 16 rue Antoine Bourdelle, Paris 15th - Metro Montparnasse – Bienvenüe Cernuschi Museum 7 avenue Velasquez, Paris 8th - Metro Villiers Victor Hugo’s Home Hôtel de Rohan-Guéménée - 6 place des Vosges, Paris 4th - Metro Bastille Cognacq-Jay Museum Hôtel Donon - 8 rue Elzévir, Paris 3th - Metro Saint-Paul Museum of Fine Arts at the Petit Palais Avenue Winston Churchill, Paris 8th - Metro Champs-Elysées - Clemenceau Romantic Life Museum 16, rue Chaptal, Paris 9th - Metro Pigalle National Museum of the Legion of Honor and Orders of Knighthood 2 rue de la Légion d'honneur , Paris 7th - Metro Solférino National Museum of Air and Space Aéroport le Bourget, 93 - RER Le Bourget Compagnonnage library Museum 10 rue Mabillo