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Faial Slideshow
Top Hotels in Faial
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Do Canal Hotel Horta
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Fayal Hotel Horta
26 reviews
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Hotel Horta
10 reviews
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Forte de Santa Cruz Horta
2 reviews -
Pousada da Horta
29 reviews
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Pousada De Horta - Forte De Santa Cruz
29 reviews
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Residencia Lima Horta
2 reviews
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Residencial Sao Francisco Horta
13 reviews
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Travel Blogs from Faial, Portugal
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Tin Tin and the Mystery of Manual Transmission
... who ask, «where the hell is that?» i say, it´s in the atlantic ocean 900 miles from philadelphia and about 500 from portugal (or something like that). it´s portuguese but most people here speak english and everyone has a brother or sister in new ...
Capelhinos and Caldiera
Our last day of tour is a taxi tour of Faial island, leaving glitsy yachtsmans paradise of Horta town and taking in the Caldiera, blue hydrangea hedges that run for miles, a container ship that 'accidentally' crashed into the coast, and the amazing ...
Faial Farewells
... and slack-jawed as testament to not having seen a woman for weeks... Peter's Cafe Sport is famed in the yachting world. Faial Island and it's deep harbour of Horta is the place where trans-Atlantic yachtsmen have stopped for decades to make repairs, ...
Island hoping
Warning: It's really hard to describe a lot of what I've been doing without using a lot of sailing talk. If what I'm saying doesn't make sense, just post a comment asking about what the strange terms I'm using mean. Don't be shy - I love talking about ...
We arrive in Horta, Faial
We made it!! It took us 16 days to make the passage from Scotland to Faial in the Azores. My first shower was amazing!! We did get a little sea sick but got over it quite quickly. The Azores are beautiful and very popular with ...
Sailing into The Azores, Horta
... the extinct volcano tops and filtered sunlight shining through. The Azores are a group of Portugese Islands almost 1000 miles west of Portugal in the Atlantic Ocean. But what surprised the most was, as we pulled into the marina the first sight to greet ...
Day Tripping Round Faial
Today we hired a car and decided to tour the island. Faial is one of the smaller islands in the group only 173 sq kms with a population of 16,000 mainly agricultural. So we figured we would have plenty of time to zip around and see the sights without ...
Horta und die Hortensien
... versuchte ich trotzdem mein Glück und machte mich per Autostop auf die mächtige Caldeira des größten Vulkans auf Faial zu erkunden. Wieder einmal vergeblich versuchte ich auch Harry davon zu überzeugen mich zu begleiten...es war für mich einfach ...
Vorgeschichte: "Sir Peter Blake and THE BIG RED"
Der neuseeländische Segler Peter Blake (1949 - 2001) hatte schon viermal am Whitbread Around the World Race teilgenommen. Segelte er 1973/74 noch als Crewmitglied auf der BURTON CUTTER mit, so war er 1977/78 bereits Wachführer auf der HEATH'S CONDOR. ...
Stopover in Azores
... with saltwater showers & a pedantic captain . This time around was a very different story. Our first stop was Horta, Faial in the Azores Islands. This tiny group of islands are the classic stopover point for sailors traveling from the Caribbean to ...
Exploring Horta
Arriving to the volcanic island of Horta was breathtaking. I really wasn't sure what to expect but it was a surprise for sure as we sailed into the harbor. It was so green and the buildings and houses were staggered up the mountainside. The harbor ...
Port of Horta
After 5 days at sea I finally see land during my watch. At 35 miles I out see the contour of the volcanic Island of Failai part of the Azorean archipelago. Shortly there after I go out on deck and begin the rinse with one of my fellow deck ...
Das grosse Warten
... über den Atlantik. So sahen wir uns ein wenig im eigentlich ganz malerischen Horta und auf der Insel Faial um. Die Azoren gehören zu Portugal und bestehen aus 9 grösseren und einigen kleinen Inseln. Diese sind etwa 1400 km von Portugal ...
Die Ankunft der STEINLAGER 2
Endlich, am Montagmorgen, dem 14. Juli tauchte die STEINLAGER 2 in der Bucht von Horta auf. Zuerst sah man nur ihre zwei Masten ausserhalb der hohen Hafenmauer, und bald tuckerte sie ins Hafenbecken und legte gekonnt an. Nach der Begrüssung, einige ...
Full day on Horta
OK I'll write one more before I catch some ZZZz's for the night. So today is one of those days where you have to pinch yourself throughout the day to make sure you are not dreaming. I have only had to do that a few times and today was one of them. ...
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