Sintra - Castles, Palaces
Sintra is a town near Lisbon where royalty and nobility used to live, and has some sites worth visiting if you have are near Lisbon. TL/DR; try to book a maybe half day tour with transportation between sites included, or else you might get stuck and we weren't able to call an uber. Or else you can wait for a bus. It's possible to see 4 stops in one day. Pre-booking - Bought Pena Palace tickets in advance for opening time, and it did sell out the day of even on for a Thursday visit. We also bought a roundtrip bus ticket from the entrance of the park to the Palace, which saved about 20 min of walking uphill. We bought tickets to Quinta, Moorish Castle, and Monserrate at the gate. First train from Lisbon was around 7:40-7:50 am on a weekday. The train arrived and left promptly. It was not busy in Lisbon but got more full towards Sintra that some people were even standing. We got to Sintra Train Station around 8:20-25 am. While I should've realized buses at the station could...