Wednesday 10th February: Day 36
09.00
Today we arrive at the island of Faial, and have authority to park up at 09.00, five hours ahead of time.
The weather has been good to us on the way up from Barbados, a tad overcast at the moment.
The Azores, by the way, are nine hundred and fifty miles west of the Iberian peninsular (Portugal) and about 2400 miles east from New York
The islands are Portuguese and appear to have been in the main since 1465.
So, we’ve sorted out our Euro’s and have the whole day to do what we want, we’ve not booked the only trip today to see the volcano.
In the immortal words of my leader, she who must be obeyed “if you’ve seen one volcano you’ve seen them all“
Oh yes, I’m now a Magellan Egghead.
Speak later
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