Coping with public and private transport since 2001
With another day of great weather, we decided to go see the other big volcano (crater) at Cete Cidades in the Western part of the island. As this is a cold crater, you first have to drive into it, which means there are plenty of opportunities for viewpoints, and we visited them all. As the clouds were really high today,
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Instead of the promised good weather we were greeted today with what can only be described as torrential downpour, so we had to run to breakfast again. That’s a nice start to our day! We wanted to go to Furnas to see the islands volcanos activity, but that will need to wait for this weather to clear a bit. And
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The Azores are the only place in Europe where tea can be grown, and today we went to see the only current plantation called Plantações de Chá Gorreana. They have a large number of plants where they grow four types of tea, including Green tea and Orange Pekoe. They are in business since 1883, and are still going strong. We
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We actually were forced to relax today, as it started raining during the night after being really overcast yesterday, and we were forced to run to our breakfast buffet to avoid getting all soaked. Breakfast is served here between 8 and 10:30, but everyone seems to start early this morning, so it was packed. A lot of old people down
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This year is going to be different as we are not just the two of us anymore, but we are travelling as a family now. This means packing is quite interesting as you need more stuff than you might think at first. We did prepare for this however, so packing on our travel day could be kept to a minimum
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