This is a blue multi-strip ticket which can be used on trams, metros and buses in Amsterdam and all over Holland. Works out about half the price of buying a ticket on board.

See www.gvb.nl (Amsterdam Transport organisation, mainly in Dutch)
Good English explanation of the Strippenkaart at
www.amsterdamtips.com/getting-around-amsterdam-the-strippenkaart.php

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Remember your Brussels Eurostar ticket covers same day onward travel to all stations in Belgium. This includes Brussels Central Station, so you can use it instead of the Metro to get across town from Midi station to your hotel or meeting near Brussels Central.

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You've had fun on the buses, trams, metro etc. on you day of arrival using the ticket you bought for three euros (Feb 08) on the air shuttle bus, but what about day two?

Get a card Viva for three euros fifty and have more fun, but don't throw the card away, as you can top it up for more days/journeys the following day.
I don't know if you can have two or more days added when you buy it, as I didn't know you could top it up at the time of original purchase!

Word of warning: when we went in to the shop selling Carris travel cards on Praca da Figueira on Day two of our stay in Lisbon they wanted to sell us each a plastic card (four euros apiece, not returnable, unlike the London Oyster card) and then top those up with a day pass each for three euros fifty.

Being mean (and green) and not planning to be back in Lisbon in the foreseeable future, I decided to walk to the Cais do Sodre metro station where we were sold the paper Viva card for three euros fifty each.
We found out about the top up when we showed the cards the next morning at the metro cashier to explain what we wanted (my Portuguese is limited to ordering drinks!) and the cashier took them and topped them up.

Enjoy this fab city and use your card to max on the ascensores, elevadore and the ferries as well as the trams, buses and metro.

Metro stations and (possibly) Carris ticket booths - not open in Feb.

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There are now highly organised gangs that operate on the trams and Metro. We got robbed on the Yellow Line from Mosteck to Namesti Republicky. As we got onto a busy train they had a "blocker" in front to create a crush and around 4-5 youngish guys and a blonde girl followed in.

Our pockets and bags were opened and valuables disappeared in no time. We shoved off the train and they were gone as it departed. The whole thing only took a few seconds.

Another gang had a go at us on the 22 tram into Malostranske nam. They tried the same strategy but we were wise to it.

The police? None to be seen. Mind you, there were plenty of burly coppers sitting around in the cop shop drinking coffee and reading the paper when we tried to report the thefts.

Metro, trams

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You can buy travel cards for various numbers of days in the major Metro stations (such as Mustek, at the bottom of Wenceslas Square.) These entitle you to unlimited travel on any bus, tram or metro line in the city and represent an economic and convenient way to get about. At the time of writing, a 24-hour pass costs KCs80 (less than £2), a 3-day pass costs KCs220 (£5) and a 7-day pass costs KCs280 (£6.50)

Major Metro stations. Prague Transport Authority website: www.dp-praha.cz/en/

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Using the subway: you have to buy tickets in little ticket offices at most of the stations. Good luck with that, they won't speak any English. Ha. Pointing and waving the correct fare might do it.

The trains and trams do get checked and you will be fined if caught without a ticket - for the minimal price of the fare, it's not worth the bother. You can buy a book of tickets if you get lucky with someone to help you - they come in tens and twenties and you punch them on the tram/platform.

It might be possible to buy them at one of the big train stations, where English-speakers may be found. Maybe.

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