The driver's union of Portugal's national railway company (CP) is striking to protest austerity measures being imposed due to the Euro-zone debt crisis.  Most of this week, the number of trains on any given route is being cut to about half the usual schedule.  The CP website showed that the 16:55 train was the only one running from Evora to Porto this evening, but when we arrived at the station the latest news was that it would be the 19:02 one instead.

Despite the occasional firehose of unintelligible Portuguese he'd shoot at us, the ticket agent did manage to convey to us our options for getting to Porto earlier.  He was even nice enough to call us a cab to take us from the train station to the bus station!

The buses are quite nice, and even have free wifi so I can post as we go!