We departed the hotel as planned before 06:00 hrs in the morning. Although it was still dark, we realised that we were traveling through beautiful mountainous terrain, soon after leaving Santander. As it got light, our impressions were confirmed and we even passed close to completely snow covered mountains. We traveled mostly on highways with an interim section on a smaller national road. It took us around 5 hours for the trip, including some short stops.
Arrival at the Madrid airport was interesting in the sense that there was a choice of 4 terminals and we had no idea where we needed to be. Worse, there was absolutely no indication where to return rental cars. This was the first time ever that I returned to an airport with no rental car return signage. After wasting some time unnecessarily, we eventually found the return station near terminal one. Spending the next few hours at Madrid airport provided us with all the time one would ever want to spend at that airport. In short: Not a glamourous airport that you would want to spend any more time than necessary.
The EasyJet flight proved to be efficient and uneventful. Like Ryanair, EasyJet charges for every piece of luggage that is checked and they only allow a single piece of hand luggage, the size of which is meticulously checked with no deviations allowed.
In Lisbon, we picked up our rental car and traveled to our hotel in Cascais, about a 40 minute drive. We enjoyed a nice walk around Cascais and had a nice portuguese dinner. We spent the evening looking at our transport options from Agen (once we landed our aircraft there) back to Santander. After hours of research with a good internet connection it became clear that Agen may not be a good option for us to fly into, due to the poor transport connections available. We decided that the next day would be required to find an alternative to Agen, then do the flight planning for that destination and have a plan for the onward transport to Santander.
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