Palace of Pena
After visiting the Castelo dos Mouros , we headed to the Palace of Pena. As I look back on this trip, we should have considered flopping these...potentially. While we were able to get on the bus right away up to the palace, we ended up in a 30 minute line to get inside the palace. We had bought tickets in advance -- through the same site we bought the Castelo dos Mouros tickets. I am not sure if we had gotten there earlier, would we have been able to avoid the line. To get up to the palace, we ended up purchasing the bus ticket. It was about 2-3 EUR each and included a round trip up to the palace and back. The buses seemed to be coming rather frequently. After just climbing up to the Mouros, it was nice to sit on the bus for the fairly steep climb up to the Palace of Pena. We did not use the bus on the way back, opting to walk down instead. I was pretty pleased with that decision. Jason waited in line and let me ge...