San Miguel, Azores Portugal

April 2018 - April 2024

We are spending one week on the beautiful island of San Miguel, one of the nine islands making up the Azores. This group of islands is called the "Hawaii" of Portugal (and of Europe). Looking forward to some awesome photo ops! Read more

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- Apr 1, 2018, 8:03pm
- ⛅ 15 °C
- Altitude: 72 ft
- Portugal Azores Rosto de Cão Ponta da Pranchinha 37.74518, -25.6479737°44’43” N 25°38’53” W
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Day 1
Ponta Delgada
April 1, 2018 in Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Our first day on San Miguel.
Traveler Beautiful place 👍
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Traveler Not sure what they were, but they were cute
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Traveler Fishing is a common hobby here
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- Apr 2, 2018, 6:00pm
- 🌬 16 °C
- Altitude: 72 ft
- Portugal Azores Rosto de Cão Ponta da Pranchinha 37.74518, -25.6479737°44’43” N 25°38’53” W
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Artistic lava rock!
April 2, 2018 in Portugal ⋅ 🌬 16 °C
All around Portugal and the Azores you will find artistic use of lava rock on the roads and sidewalks. This is truly typical Portugal and really amazing!
Traveler Beautiful , enjoy !
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Traveler A typical sidewalk bistro
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Traveler The sidewalk detail is so lovely
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- Apr 2, 2018, 6:02pm
- 🌬 16 °C
- Altitude: 72 ft
- Portugal Azores Rosto de Cão Ponta da Pranchinha 37.74518, -25.6479737°44’43” N 25°38’53” W
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San Miguel Architecture
April 2, 2018 in Portugal ⋅ 🌬 16 °C
Walking around the beautiful town of Ponta Delgada on the Azorean island of San Miguel...
Traveler What the ?!?!? Maybe we're in the wrong neighborhood!
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Traveler There were many small churches scattered around the island
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Traveler A typical town square
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- Apr 2, 2018, 6:02pm
- 🌬 16 °C
- Altitude: 72 ft
- Portugal Azores Rosto de Cão Ponta da Pranchinha 37.74518, -25.6479737°44’43” N 25°38’53” W
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Morning walk by the seaside
April 2, 2018 in Portugal ⋅ 🌬 16 °C
Such a glorious place for a morning walk by the seaside. This is just outside our guest quarters!
Traveler This rock reminded us of a warrior's profile
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Traveler The seaside was really beautiful
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Traveler Fisherman ... we think they were gathering muscles
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- Apr 2, 2018, 6:05pm
- 🌬 16 °C
- Altitude: 72 ft
- Portugal Azores Rosto de Cão Ponta da Pranchinha 37.74518, -25.6479737°44’43” N 25°38’53” W
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Church in Ponta Delgada
April 2, 2018 in Portugal ⋅ 🌬 16 °C
This is a beautiful church in Ponta Delgada. Definitely a beauty!
Traveler This church was gorgeous
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Traveler Such a beautiful interior; really awe inspiring
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Traveler a small chapel tucked away in the corner
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- Apr 3, 2018, 7:21pm
- ☀️ 15 °C
- Altitude: 72 ft
- Portugal Azores Rosto de Cão Ponta da Pranchinha 37.74518, -25.6479737°44’43” N 25°38’53” W
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Tour of East San Miguel - Azores
April 3, 2018 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
Today, we took a guided tour of the East end of San Miguel Island. We visited Furnas which is a village entirely built in the crater of a volcano - still fairly active. This is where they put together a delicious stew of meat, sausage, and vegetables in a pot and bury it in the ground for 6 hours and let nature, and the active Sulphur hot springs do the cooking. Delicious! We took in the beautiful mountainous areas and stopped of at the highest point for a photo op of Lake Furnas - one of San Miguel's volcanic lakes. There were so many gorgeous sights it was hard to capture even a fraction of them. No wonder they call the Azores the Hawaii of Europe.Read more
Traveler Looks amazing!
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Traveler We climbed to the top!
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Traveler Such a scenic place
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- Apr 6, 2018, 5:56pm
- ⛅ 16 °C
- Altitude: 72 ft
- Portugal Azores Rosto de Cão Ponta da Pranchinha 37.74518, -25.6479737°44’43” N 25°38’53” W
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Tour of West San Miguel - Azores
April 6, 2018 in Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Toured the West part of San Miguel Island. This place is a paradise!
Traveler Surfer's paradise
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Traveler The natural hot springs at Caldeira Velha
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Traveler Natural hot springs (NOT us)
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- Apr 6, 2018, 5:59pm
- ⛅ 16 °C
- Altitude: 72 ft
- Portugal Azores Rosto de Cão Ponta da Pranchinha 37.74518, -25.6479737°44’43” N 25°38’53” W
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San Miguel Museum of Sacred Arts
April 6, 2018 in Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Visited the museum of sacred arts and the old convent - really amazing. The altar in the museum is hand-carved wood!
Traveler This altar is hand-carved wood; took over 100 years and is absolutely amazing!
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Traveler Detail of the altar's carving
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Traveler More detail of carving
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- Apr 17, 2018, 7:31pm
- ⛅ 19 °C
- Altitude: 243 ft
- Portugal Lisbon District Cascais Cobre Pampilheira 38.707166, -9.43108338°42’26” N 9°25’52” W
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Sintra: Pena Palace and Moorish Castle
April 17, 2018 in Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
A visit to Sintra where we went to Pena Palace and climbed the many stairs to the top of the Moorish Castle. Beautiful place!
Traveler Beautiful place , we are in awe !
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- Apr 19, 2018, 6:39pm
- ⛅ 21 °C
- Altitude: 243 ft
- Portugal Lisbon District Cascais Cobre Pampilheira 38.707105, -9.43102738°42’26” N 9°25’52” W
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Cascais
April 19, 2018 in Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Well, we are winding up our Portugese adventure ... only a few more days. Today, we had a walk around Cascais, located just 40 minutes from Lisbon. Weather was perfect and we came across a hidden park area in the municipal arts district ... Another beautiful day in Portugal.Read more
Traveler Is that your new house?
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Traveler Yeah...nice, huh?🤑
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