And we're off! Spending a few days on San Miguel island - part of the Azores. We had to walk across the tarmac to the plane at Boston Logan - interesting start to our trip! (and the same in Ponta Delgada)
It was an overnight flight - only 5 hours, and we landed in Ponta Delgada at 6 am. Our room wasn't available until 3 pm, so we headed out for some much needed coffee! We already loved the narrow streets, cobblestone streets, and tiled sidewalks (and buildings)
The flight wasn't really long enough to get much sleep, so we were a little fuzzy most of the day. Their coffee though- excellent! It was cloudy and the temps were in the 60's, so a pretty good day for walking.
Our hotel! We had a ocean view room with a balcony - loved it!
The harbor & marina- across the street from our hotel (all encompassing - a working harbor; a pier with restaurants, a marina, an ocean swimming pool, a water park....)
A lot of sailboats make their way across the ocean and stop here. Many leave notes of their journey
Many beautiful buildings and squares
We happened to notice a yellow bus (offer tours), so we signed up for a 2 day pass (before we fell asleep). Best idea - they take us up a couple volcanoes, so the views are incredible!
One stop were the hot springs. We didn't know about these (I did zero research for our trip) or we would have brought our bathing suits - a lot of people were enjoying the natural hot tubs.
Beautiful area
This spring was too hot for soaking - it was boiling - wow!
Back on the bus and enjoying the beautiful views
We were in love!
At 4:00, we headed back to the hotel to check in. Chris told the hotel that it was our anniversary - so they treated us with rose petals all through out the room (and that night, they brought us delicious chocolate cake and champagne!)
View from our balcony -to the left: the water park, and a small marina
across from our room - the ocean swimming pool; the working harbor (to the right was the main marina) We loved this view: watching the kids play in the water park, seeing the crazy old guys soak in the ocean pool (temp was in the low 60's brrr!), watching the sailboats come into the marina; and watching the large ships offload their merchandise. It was always busy and so much to see.
We headed to the marina for dinner
Some sangria with fresh Tuna for dinner! Then back to the hotel & our balcony for fun viewing :) We lasted until 9 pm, then finally called it a night. An amazing Day #1!
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