Portugal’s ‘Route 66’ Passport now on sale

The longest road in Europe, Portugal’s EN2 from Faro in the Algarve to Chaves in the far north, passes through São Brás de Alportel where a new ‘passport’ is now for sale.

The Association of Municipalities of the EN2 is keen to encourage national and foreign tourists to drive along the 738.5 kilometres, stopping off along the way to get their special passport stamped while enjoying the drive and frequent stops in the 36 council areas traversed.

The Association claims that the EN2 is the third longest road in the world, beaten only by the famous Route 66 in the United States and Route 40 in Argentina.*

The new passports are for sale for an entirely reasonable €1.00 at the São Brás de Alportel Council office and at the Tourist Information Point in the local Arts and Crafts Centre.

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* An astute reader points out that "European route E 40 is the longest European route, more than 8,000 kilometres (4,971 miles) long, connecting Calais in France via Belgium, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan, with Ridder in Kazakhstan near the border with Russia and China." Thanks for the update, however this road was discounted as Ridder is not in Europe.

There's also the E45 in Sweden that appears to qualify, being in Europe...

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_route_E45_in_Sweden

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0 #27 Bahari 2018-09-05 17:16

Quoting Ed:

No, but someone in the office is and was using my computer.

And what about the message #6 from Richard 2, dit “someone in the office” ad “Hah, many thanks, Ed” at the end?

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Nope, not anyone this end
Ed

0 #26 Ed 2018-09-05 07:33

Quoting Denby:

Ed,
Are you Terry P... please see #22

No

0 #25 Ed 2018-09-05 07:32

No, but someone in the office is and was using my computer.

0 #24 Bahari 2018-09-05 07:18

RE #22: ‘Ed’ answers to a critic of ‘Terry p’ using “I said...”. Does this means Ed uses several pseudos in the same series of comments? So ‘Ed’, ‘Terry p”, Richard 2’ and ‘Charly’ are all the same ‘Ed’ creating supporters... well, that explains a lot.

-1 #23 Denby 2018-09-05 02:40

Ed,
Are you Terry P... please see #22

0 #22 Ed 2018-09-04 18:29

Quoting Denby:

Terry p,
Referring to #8, if you don't have any thing to add to the discussion, could you then stop harassing those those that are contributing as this does not help the debate.

Quoting Denby:

Terry p,
Referring to #8, if you don't have any thing to add to the discussion, could you then stop harassing those those that are contributing as this does not help the debate.

I said please and then yawned, hardly harassment, just an expression or boredom.

-1 #21 Denby 2018-09-04 17:43

Terry p,
Referring to #8, if you don't have any thing to add to the discussion, could you then stop harassing those those that are contributing as this does not help the debate.

0 #20 Ed 2018-09-04 11:58

Quoting Bahari:

Ed, that wasn’t my first observation, those were presented in a completely objective way. Your citation comes from a reply to the arrogant remarks of “Richard 2”.

That’s as well my last comment in THIS matter.

Apologies, this now is all rather complicated as your response to Richard 2 did not include his original text, maybe there was not enough space, this happens sometimes. Anyway, I very probably will not write any more about the EN2, it seems to get me into all sorts of trouble.

-1 #19 Bahari 2018-09-04 11:34

Ed, that wasn’t my first observation, those were presented in a completely objective way. Your citation comes from a reply to the arrogant remarks of “Richard 2”.

That’s as well my last comment in THIS matter.

0 #18 Ed 2018-09-04 11:26

Quoting Bahari:

Hi Ed, that means a “press release is translated” and “tweaked” but not marked as “press release”, thus gets confounded with journalistic contributions. The way you edited the article is acceptable. As I stated, I apreciate your news site in general, but the pack of arrogant supporters (friends?) jumping on critical readers is quite annoying. Journalism comes with responsibilities, and these days some people don’t care anymore. To point it out is worth being insulted.

I suspect it was the manner in which you offered your original observation."... you simply should check the facts before you publish whatever comes into your head. In Wikipedia for example, or Google if you don’t know Wikipedia."

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