How best sum up this trip? Last December my friend Rosa invited me to go with her on the trip and I have to say I looked forward to the trip for several months. I did my usual research about the places I was going to visit including the Azores and all the cities and […]
Read MoreI mentioned in my previous post that I left the square last night about 10:30pm. Rosa and Augusta came back about 12:30am but apparently the candlelight vigil went on till 7am today. We had breakfast and soon after that, we went back to the square for mass that started at 10am. People kept streaming into […]
Read MoreMy day started with a very ordinary breakfast and then a walk to a park where there were 15 stations depicting the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. I blogged about a similar site in La Riviere, Manitoba in July 2011. It took us about 90 minutes to see all of them because there were literally […]
Read MoreToday it was a tour of the Monastery of Alcobaça (pronounced Alco-basa). The outside was architecturally similar in Gothic style to many we have seen on previous days, so I decided to skip the guided tour and find a lovely courtyard on the inside and sit and enjoy the quietness and the birds chirping. When […]
Read MoreWhat a crazy busy day, and not one I would like to repeat, except for the Porto part. We arrived at Porto sometime around 11am, and I decided that I did not like being so rushed all the time, so I broke away from the group and did my own thing. And was I ever […]
Read MoreWe left San Miguel this morning for Porto but we didn’t actually see any of Porto as our schedule indicated. We went to Guimarães which is considered “The Cradle of Portuga,l” and had a quick lunch at one of the sidewalk cafes. There was quite a beautiful church (as there are in almost every corner […]
Read MoreWe had breakfast and started our day at 9:00 am. The weather is much improved from yesterday where it rained all day. It was sunny and bright for most of the time we were out. We visited a pineapple plantation which would ordinarily be uninteresting but in the Azores, pineapples are grown only in greenhouses. […]
Read MoreThe weather today has not improved much from last night so I am bundled up and wearing gloves and a scarf. I thought I left that weather in Winnipeg but apparently, I have not. It’s misty and cloudy and the humidity must be 100%. We had a good breakfast at the hotel and joined our […]
Read MoreOne more morning in Lisbon until we leave for Ponta Delgada so we decided to go to the aquarium. The group agreed that we would go four each in taxis to arrive at 10am and spend about 3 hours seeing the aquarium. It was quite massive and represented the four oceans. We had a little […]
Read MoreThis morning, Rosa and Augusta went to a church we found last night not far from the hotel called Our Lady of Fatima. The mass was supposed to be at 9:00 am and we were to meet at 10:00 am to go to the museum, but when I got there, mass was actually starting at […]
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