The Series Of My Life - Season 1 - Episode 115

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The Series Of My Life - Season 1 - Episode 115

Immigration IssueThere was only one major railway line from Braga down to Porto, Coimbra, Lisbon, Setubal and down to Faro. Portugal is a Vertical Country. The distance from West to East was approximately 65km while North to South was 562km. Its only neighboduring country was Spain. The rest of its neighbours was Waters.


On the morning of January 2, we had packed our two small bags and played in our room. I had decided to enter into Lisbon area in the night. It would be safer.

Braga to Lisbon was about 322km. I figured out that a direct train running at the average speed of 80km/hour will take about 4hours to get to Lisbon. I added about 25 minutes it would waste at the various stations along the way and got 4hours 25 minutes.

I wanted to get to Lisbon when everyone would be heading to bed. I also wanted to get to Lisbon when I could still be able to get a hotel room.

I trusted Francis but not enough to go back to my old room in Lisbon. The ideal time to leave Braga was 6pm.


I told Jennifer that we were leaving by 6pm. She didn’t know why and she didn’t ask why. She had learnt to trust my decisions and it had been near perfect so far.

She wanted to bring our DVD player along, even cooking pots but I told her to just pick the things she cannot do without. We played until it was 5:40pm, then we entered a taxi and drove to Braga central train station.