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Tim Lynette Wilkins
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Tim Lynette Wilkins

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  • Tim Lynette WilkinsBack to JerezViaggiatore

    Xerex deportivo f c

    12 febbraio 2018, Spagna ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C

    Back to see my Xerex football team. Once again they are top of the league, having had a disappointing season last year ( they only came sixth!) they won 2-1, so with Barnet also winning with a goal in the 93rd minute, it's been a good football weekend. Let's hope that the bees can make up some ground and scrape out of relegation again, and that the azulblancos (blue and whites) can get promoted again.Leggi altro

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  • Tim Lynette WilkinsBack to JerezViaggiatore
    Lunch in the sun
    Jerez stationMore chorros!Station

    Weekend with Janet

    10 febbraio 2018, Spagna ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C

    Janet arrived yesterday morning for the weekend and we took the train to meet her at the airport. I'd forgotten what a pretty station it is in Jerez. The weather was dull and grey and miserable but we managed to get out for a good meal. Today it's blue and sunny again and we went down to the market to get some hake to cook for tonight and then after that we'll go out for some flamenco.Leggi altro

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  • Tim Lynette WilkinsBack to JerezViaggiatore
    Churros and chocolate
    Making churros, cutting the fried dough sticks

    Churros and chocolata

    8 febbraio 2018, Spagna ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C

    Churros and chocolata for breakfast again in the market square. It's extruded dough plunged into deep hot oil and eaten in a cup of hot chocolate.

    Janet is coming in tomorrow morning for the weekend so that means getting up early(!) to get the train out to the airport to meet the flight. Jerez is on a very similar longitude to London so the day starts and ends at about the same time, but it's on European time so of course the clocks are out by an hour. Sunrise in London is about 7.30 now, so here it's about 8.30. Shops don't open till 10 usually, and nothing gets going till then at the earliest, so no point in getting up till then. The pics of breakfast today were at 11, and the sun was only just beginning to warm up even then.Leggi altro

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  • Tim Lynette WilkinsBack to JerezViaggiatore
    Flamenco
    One for Andy - chips smothered in melted cheeseOut at night

    Flamenco

    4 febbraio 2018, Spagna ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C

    Last night we went out to the tapas bar that has real local flamenco that we went to many times before. It is now so well-known that they are putting on a show every night, and also in the afternoons some days. It was packed but still really good. Our apartment is so central that it's just two minutes walk to the bar in one direction and the same to the favourite tapas bar in the other. We woke up this morning to find the street wet where it had rained overnight, and sky dull, cloudy and grey - no lunch out in the sun today! But it's supposed to clear again later, and get a bit warmer.Leggi altro

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  • Tim Lynette WilkinsBack to JerezViaggiatore
    Time for a oloroso
    View from the roof terrace in the eveningSitting roomLunch in the sunA flock of storks flew over to welcome us back

    Arrived

    3 febbraio 2018, Spagna ⋅ ☀️ 9 °C

    The journey yesterday was unenventful, we even arrived a bit early, and didn't even lose any of the bags. The apartment is really nice, well-appointed and comfy. The weather is chilly but the sun is shining and sky clear blue so we are happy. We had lunch sitting in the square in the sun and a light dinner in a little cafe/bar right opposite and the food was really good. We couldn't resist stopping at our favourite sherry bar for an oloroso afterwards. Today we got up late and had churros and chocolate for breakfast next to the market and then stocked up in there; Tuna steaks tonight. It's so nice be back here!Leggi altro

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  • Tim Lynette WilkinsThe AzoresViaggiatore
    Dolphins
    Lots of dolphins!The whale watching boat

    Last day - whale watching

    7 ottobre 2017, Portogallo ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C

    We were due to go on a whale watching trip today, but Lynette didn't feel up to it so I went alone. Just a few minutes out of the harbour we came to a school (school? Pod?) of maybe 30 or 40 dolphins (common ones apparently) and stayed watching them for a while then went further out to sea and a found a huge school (maybe many hundred) of much rarer Atlantic spotted dolphins feeding. The ocean seemed full of them, swimming, diving and jumping to great heights, higher than the boat. They are so fast that it's near impossible to catch them with a camera. Then finally I got my whale, a big Fin whale, mostly going just under the surface and just coming up a bit to breath. All we got to see was its fin and a back of its back, not a head or tail, and again coming up and diving much fast to get a picture.

    Back home tomorrow - early flight to land at gatwick at 1 p.m., so giving an hour or so to get out of the airport, and maybe a couple of hours train home, we could back home late afternoon. Somehow I doubt that it will work like that!    Leggi altro

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  • Tim Lynette WilkinsThe AzoresViaggiatore
    Limpets
    FumerolsDeep fumerolIn the hot poolsLunch being dug up

    Day 7 - volcanic geysers and hot pools

    6 ottobre 2017, Portogallo ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C

    Last night we had dinner at a fish restaurant on the harbour, and indulged in some local favourites, including some really tasty octopus and some not so tasty limpets. Then today we started the day by going to an area of volcanic geysers, fumerols and hot springs. The clouds of steam are amazing and we were able to go for a swim in one of the hot water pools. To get lunch they buried a big pot of meat and vegetables in the hot ground, and left it till lunch. Interesting, but in truth not really better than a good stew!Leggi altro

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  • Tim Lynette WilkinsThe AzoresViaggiatore
    Narrow centre of island between 2 volcanoes
    Crater lake at Lagoa do FogoLagoa do FogoFumaroles of boiling waterRibeira GrandeRibeira Grande

    Lots of volcanoes

    5 ottobre 2017, Portogallo ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

    Another good day today despite it being cloudy most of the time but still 22C. This island was originally two, formed by volcanoes 1 - 2 million years ago. About 50,000 years ago some fissures between them spewed lava that joined them together. This morning we went up one of the eastern volcanoes which has a beautiful crater lake, Lagoa do Fogo. Then onto an area of fumaroles with bubbling hot water forming pools. This is a very popular areas with the locals who come to bathe in the iron rich hot water and as today is a national holiday, it was packed.
    We continued down to the north side of the island where there is a pretty old town called Ribeira Grande.
    This afternoon we went up a volcano at the far west of the island where a whole sequence of eruptions has created several craters most with lakes of rain water in them.
    A drive round the west and north coasts brought us back to Ponta Delgarda where we visited a pineapple plantation and saw the lengthy and tricky process to grow just one pineapple per plant.    Leggi altro

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  • Tim Lynette WilkinsThe AzoresViaggiatore
    Pico volcano at dawn
    Cliffs uplifted in last eruptionLighthouse surrounded by lava and ashEdge of the volcanoNew volcano from the shore

    Day 5 - from Faial back to Ponta Delgada

    4 ottobre 2017, Portogallo ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

    Trip out in the morning sunshine to the other end of the island to see where the last big eruption created a small offshore island that then got joined to the shore. The eruption went on for eighteen months and left the lighthouse that was on the cliffs marooned inland surrounded by the lava and ash. Very surreal! Then a flight to the island of Ponta Delgada, which was where we arrived at midnight on day one.Leggi altro

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  • Tim Lynette WilkinsThe AzoresViaggiatore
    Ferry leaving Faial for Pico
    Vineyard on Pico with Faial in the distanceWhaling centre on PicoPot still in a village for distilling aquadenteAtlantic waves in lava formationsVolcano caldera filled with cloud

    Day 4 - ferry to Pico island

    3 ottobre 2017, Portogallo ⋅ 🌬 17 °C

    Leisurely breakfast and a stroll around the port, then a 30 minutes ferry journey to Pico, the next island, for the day. The tour took us all around the island visiting a wine museum (but with no wine), a whale museum ( but with no whales!). This was a big centre of whaling so it's still very recently in everyone's minds. Now it's a big centre of tourists wanting to go out to see whales off the islands. We may go later in the week. The island is dominated by its huge volcano, which is the highest mountain in Portugal. We also saw lots of the lava rock formations again, with huge Atlantic waves crashing over them. After getting the ferry back to Faial, we went up the caldera of the volcano here, but by the time we got there the clouds had come down and all we could see was thick fog!Leggi altro

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  • Tim Lynette WilkinsThe AzoresViaggiatore
    Arch of lava tunnel
    Lava sea cavesView to Pico islandSailing yacht panelsMore yachtsTip of volcano of Pico

    Day 3 - on to Faial

    2 ottobre 2017, Portogallo ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

    Finally got the flight and arrived in Faial in time for a tour round the port. It's the fourth busiest marina in the world because of the trans ocean sailing boats that put in there, also cruises. Each sailing boat paints a panel on the harbour wall to record their ocean transit, some of them have recorded up to a dozen trips. We also stopped at rock formations where the lava flows have come down to the coast and have been worn away to create arches, holes and sea tunnels.Leggi altro

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  • Tim Lynette WilkinsThe AzoresViaggiatore
    View of Sao Jorge from Terceira, with the volcano of Pico behind
    Wild amaryllis - they are all over the islandCentral market with chilliesStreet scene with balconies everywhereNot our plane!Sao Comcalo convent 16c

    Day 3 - Terceira to Faial

    2 ottobre 2017, Portogallo ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

    Spent the morning on a walking tour of Angra do Heroismo, which is a UNESCO world heritage site, on Terceira before having lunch and leaving to go to the airport. Flying this afternoon to the next island, Faial, and having a tour of the harbour and volcanic rock formations. Except as of 3 p.m. We are still at airport waiting for the plane, which has technical problems. In the meantime I'm looking at the one plane on the Tarmac, which is a NATO plane, this being a big NATO base.Leggi altro

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  • Tim Lynette WilkinsThe AzoresViaggiatore
    Tim in Praia da Vitoria
    Restaurant where we had a good lunchLooking up to the top of the volcano tubeLooking down the volcano tubeVolcano tube from 2000 years agoStrange coloured rock in the volcano

    Day 2 - island of Teseira

    1 ottobre 2017, Portogallo ⋅ 🌙 20 °C

    After lunch, in a stunning new restaurant, we when down inside one of the volcanos where the lava cut tubes into the rock and these are now tunnel-shaped caves. As well as being a great experience it was also nice and cool inside. It has been clear blue skies today and the temperature is mid-20's, but it is very humid so after a late arrival yesterday and an early start today we are definitely wilting!Leggi altro

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  • Tim Lynette WilkinsThe AzoresViaggiatore
    Typical azorian church
    Vines sheltered in stone wallsOld lava flows at the shoreLynette in the lava flowsOld volcano topsAnother azorian church

    Arrival

    30 settembre 2017, Portogallo ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

    Arrived at Ponta Delgada on the island of Sao Miguel at midnight, and left at 6.30 to get a flight to the island of Teceira. Spent the morning sightseeing by minibus, especially the rock formations from the various volcanic eruptions (there hasn't been one since the 17th century!)
    There are only six of us on the tour, all tolerable and mobile, so we can pack in a lot of places and stops without it taking too long. The minibus is a bit ancient with not much suspension and no air- conditioning.    Leggi altro

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