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Petrol stations

Petrol stations are usually opened from 7 am until 8 pm, in cities and by frequently used roads even until midnight. One can normally buy 95 and 98 octane gasoline, as well as diesel (Gasóleo).

Pets

For pets there has to be a health certificate signed by a public vet. Also the pet must have a rabies inoculation.

Pharmacies

Pharmacies open from 9 am to 1 pm and from 3 pm to 7 pm, Monday to Friday, and Saturday mornings. There are also 24 hour pharmacies which operate according to an official chart displayed on Pharmacy windows.

The post office

Opening hours of the Correios or CTT are usually from 8.30 am until 6 pm, with changes on little villages. Some of them close during lunch-time, which is from 12.30 until 3 pm. Only main offices and airport-post-offices will open saturday mornings.All cards and letters below 20 g to EU-countries need stamps of value 54 cents. The transport to and from central Europe takes between 3 and 5 days. A little faster, but also a significantly more expensive possibility is the so-called Correio Azul, using the blue mailboxes.

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