Faial, Portugal Travel Blogs

Faial, Pico and Sao Jorge Island.
Sep 13, 2009

Faial, Pico and Sao Jorge Island.

Tin Tin and the Mystery of Manual Transmission
May 13, 2009 (2 photos)

... 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 england ...

Capelhinos and Caldiera
Jul 22, 2006 (11 photos)

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
Jul 22, 2006 (2 photos)

... 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, find ...

Sailing into The Azores, Horta
Jul 6, 2008 (16 photos)

... 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 ...

Land ahoy, the Azores....we hope!
Jul 18, 2008

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Island hoping
Apr 19, 2007

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
Jul 19, 2008 (31 photos)

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 ...

Day Tripping Round Faial
Jul 9, 2008 (40 photos)

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 ...

Stopover in Azores
May 25, 2004 (5 photos)

... 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 Europe. ...