by Gordon Webster | Nov 4, 2021 | 2021 Azores |
Gord on the track around the caldera rim. Sete Cidades Gordon: I am approaching the end of the third of five levels of the Duolingo course in Portuguese, so I should have some ability to understand simple things that are said to me in Portuguese, right? Not a bit of...
by Gordon Webster | Oct 26, 2021 | 2021 Azores |
Gordon: “Just keep looking at my butt. No, not over there. Focus on the butt.” Today we visited the town of Maia, which we have been eagerly anticipating for some time. It was a slow motion triathlon: 25 kms of cycling, 10 kms of walking, and a few hundred metres of...
by Gordon Webster | Oct 21, 2021 | 2021 Azores |
Resurrecting the trail markers Gordon: The island of Santa Maria has two very different halves: a gently rolling, rather arid west, and a green, mountainous east. We have spent the last couple of days cycling and walking around the western half.Yesterday we cycled to...
by Gordon Webster | Oct 18, 2021 | 2021 Azores |
Figueiral Cave(limestone quarry) Gordon: Santa Maria is the only island in the Azores to have a marked trail running all around it. The trail is 78 kms long and is generally walked in four or five days. Portugal uses the same naming and marking conventions as other...
by Gordon Webster | Oct 15, 2021 | 2021 Azores |
Gordon: Over the last few days we have had the pleasure of walking the Levada trail. This 8 km path follows a concrete lined ditch (the Levada) that collected and transported water to a pool for use in a hydroelectric generating station. The literature describes the...
