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ternoon drink, whether a fruit juice or a cocktail. There's a light menu of sandwiches and
snacks and it is open until 2am all week in summer.
Information
Espaço Multimédia
(Biblioteca Municipal, Rua Mendes Leal; 10am-1pm & 2-6pm Tue-Sat)
Free internet in
the ornate blue-and-white public library, one block west of Praça da República.
Turismo
(
261 863 122; turismo.ericeira@cm-mafra.pt; Rua Dr Eduardo Burnay 46;
10am-6pm Sep-mid-Jul,
10am-10pm mid-Jul-Aug)
Has internet access at €2.50 per hour.
Getting There & Away
BUS
Mafrense
( 261 862 717;
www.mafrense.pt
)
buses stop at the bus station 800m north of the
praça
(town square), off the N247 highway.
Connections to northern destinations such as Peniche and Coimbra are best made
through Torres Vedras (€3.55, one hour, six on weekdays, three on Saturday and one on
Sunday). Other destinations, with services roughly on the hour, are Lisbon-Campo
Grande station (€6, 1¼ hours), Mafra (€2.10, 25 minutes) and Sintra (€3.35, 50 minutes).
Getting Around
Regular local buses to Torres Vedras go past Praia da Ribeira d'Ilhas (€1.20). For Praia
Foz do Lizandro (€0.90), take any Sintra-bound bus to a stop on the N247 above the
beach.
You can rent bicycles from
Go Out
(
925 307 317;
www.goout.com.pt
;
Rua Prudêncio Franco da
9am-1pm & 3-6pm Apr-Sep)
. There's a
taxi stand
in Largo dos
Trindade 1; per day/week €11/56;
Condes da Ericeira.
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Peniche
POP 14,700
Popular for its long, fabulous town beach, nearby surf strands and also as a jumping-off
point for the beautiful Ilhas Berlengas nature reserve, Peniche, spectacularly set on a
headland with the sea on all sides, remains a working port, giving it a slightly grittier,
