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Walking to the top

To this fantastic Taiwan girls , who ON-MY-BUS talk a perfect English, some good information are essential before take a decision, You have so mush to see, and walking is needed to see every thing, so if you are tired when you make it at the Castle or Palace you will not see mush. But 1H30 to the top of the hill, YOU CAN DO BETTER!!. this Slovenian girls with incredible green eyes who make it in 50 minutes, or this 2 Indian looking girls, when I ask what exotic place are you from?, they answer " FROM LONDON" they make it in 35 minutes and looking so fresh,thank you!!.----------------------------------- SO THE CURRENT STANDINGS ARE :---------------------------------------- 2 Indian looking girls from London  35 m    ----------------------------------   3 incredible green eyes Slovenia girls  50 m ---------------------------------- Taiwan girls and boy 1H30 -----------------------------------------------     Some folk´s from Illinois   ????  still missing (last seen unchanging maps with Korean couple at 11H00 a.m. of  26-10- 2009 )

As fronhas da vila

Umas simpáticas emigrantes sentadas ON-MY-BUS me perguntavam onde podiam comprar as FRONHAS, eu ainda com alguns neurónios colidindo no vazio reflectivo respondi, no palácio,-Não mas é na vila! e tem outro nome. -Colchas?,digo eu -Não- Mantas?-Não- Almofadas?-Sim ,sim isso,onde se encontra ?.-No Palácio da vila.-Sim,e se compra as dúzias?? e para levar!!! -Quer comprar uma dúzia de almofadas do palácio para levar !??!-Sim- Ah bom! e que não e muito comum sabe!- Porquê? até me disseram que havia sempre filas na pastelaria!. Ah, já sei o que quer dizer, são travesseiros !-Sim, isso, uma dúzia de travesseiros para levar, e para a família sabe?, e as almofadas também se come ??.

Berlin moins dix dégrées

"J en ai bien profiter" elle me disait quand ON-MY-BUS on parlait de ses vacances en "low season".Avec -10º en Berlin elle a put tout faire sans foule e sans confusion. Mais ici a Sintra il était un beau jour de soleil et avec une bonne lumière pour tes photos, pas vrai ?A propos, avec un jet privé mois je partirais a ...O.K. je ne vêt pas parlé d´un autre destin, mais c´est une Ile! q´un passager, ex. photographe, qui revisiter  les plus beau endroit ou il avait travaille, ma parler.

Só vista

Mais uma pergunta pode ser uma a mais ?   Lidando com o publico tentamos ser o mais solícitos possível , era esse exercício que fazia um meu colega respondendo as perguntas de uns turistas .- O que havia para ver? -estava longe ?-qual o mais perto?-como se vai?- a que horas fecha?-quem habita?-pode se ver a Rainha?-e o Rei?-para que serve!!??. As perguntas ganhão vida , multiplicão-se , acelerão e levantam num boomerang voo clonando-se e ricocheteando numa só direcção.-E o castelo esta aberto ao publico?-museu dos palácios?-e os pasteis e para comer?- como se vai?-de autocarro?-paga-se?-de comboio não da?-porqué?-o castelo paga-se?. Entorpecido com a proliferação de perguntas exaspera-se pela ultima.-Paga-se a entrada?-SIM-e o castelo?-SIM-para vê-lo?-SIM-e o autocarro?-SIM-Então e se só quiser vê-lo por fora?- ENTÃO OLHE, FAÇA ASSIM, OLHE PARA ALI, E JÁ ESTA!!; e apontou, para trás, por cima do ombro na direcção do topo da colina. Os turistas olhavam para cima e olhavam para o colega.Conferenciaram entre si -Se paga ou NON! para ver-lo? NON!. E resignados os turistas encaminharam-se de volta para a estação protestando-Que tudo se paga em Sintra, até las vistas!-E que no topo da colina não estava o castelo mas sim um nevoeiro que cobria toda a serra.-Adiós Portugal, até la vista !.

Other´s leave you half way

with the first´s rain, only at the last days of October, the difficulty of driving a bus to the top of the hill by this winding road increase. The last klm is in "pavé" and when is raining it get very slippery. The steep slopes, the tight curves, grooves, gaps, ups and downs, the dirt and leaves, make the wheels spinning and most of the cars don´t make it to the top. So the others buses are spinning!, their drivers sweating!, their passengers looking like they had just seen the lady in white (local ghost), and they had to give up and leave their passengers half way to the top. We had 5 buses working that day, on the regular 434 line and special rent, and they all make it to the top and back, in safety and smoothness, and we even give a ride ON MY BUS to the passengers of the other company!!?. You don´t need to be a "special one" but they are some driving skills, experience, you need to have; and some secrets about this every changing grip road you need to know. That´s in days like this a sometimes think we make it seems to simple!!!. Another day of amazing drive guys!!!.    Photos and other references are not appropriated

My poor Japanese

Living the bus stop of Palacio da pena a Japanese girl address to me and ask. - Do this bus stop at the Mouros castle ?. I reply. - No,we only have a bus stop at the Moorish castle on the way up, from Pena it goes directly back down,to the historic center. -O.K.,she said and take a seat ON MY BUS. Arriving at the train station,the last bus stop,she ask me pointing to a day ticket. - Can I use this ticket TO MOUROS?. - Yes I said,if you take the 434 again you can step out at the Mouros castle on the way up. She look at me and ask me again. -O.K. can I use this ticket TOO MOURO?. Sometimes I need to stop.I was looking at her trying to understand !A Japanese student in Germany,if she talks so well English that mean `s she understand it , so why did she ask me the same question 2 times. She was looking back,blinking,and ask me again. - Yes,but can I use this ticket TO MOORO?. Then she said something in Japanese, certainly nice,  and I immediately understood. - Oh sorry, no, you can ´not use the same ticket again TOMORROW.