Azores Shore Leave – Day 6

Horta, Faial
Date: Thursday 06/12/2008
Weather: Rain

Wednesday was Eric & Robyn’s last night in their hotel. They checked out Thursday morning. It was quite expensive and they had already extended their stay from 2 days to 4 days.

The rain was relentless and the boat damp. It was hard to imagine 5 people sleeping on it. I decided to look for a less expensive hotel for Scott and myself. Scott was not keen on the idea of leaving the boat, but he trusts Eric & Kelly and I was adamant. I needed to have some dry time!

We decided to keep the car for another day. We still had provisioning to do if we were to leave Saturday.

We picked up the laundry from the day before and did some grocery shopping and restocked our wine supply. We have been drinking only Azorean wines and they have been excellent. Two of my favorite things in the Azores were the wine and the cheese – oh, and also the bread – they have great bread. I could live on their bread and cheese and wine.

It continued to rain hard all day. We were immune to the rain – like the cows in the fields, we endured being wet all the time.

In the evening we headed out to find what was billed as the best barbequed chicken in the Azores. As they say, it’s not the destination, it’s the journey. When we found the chicken place it was closed (although we could smell the love!). I’m sure the proprietors had no expectation that customers would be out on a night like this.

What we did find was a point where we could see the huge cliffs with waterfalls crashing down the sides. All of this rain had to go somewhere. It was one of the most impressive sights so far, but none of us had been willing to bring our cameras out with us in this most soggy of nights.