azores travel

• Under the Volcano

I'm on a tour of the Gruta das Torres, a volcanic cave on Pico, one of the nine scattered islands that make up the Azores, Portuguese outposts lying in the Atlantic about 1,000 kilometres off the European coast. It's hard to believe that a couple of days ago I was on another Azorean island, Sao Miguel, sampling fresh local pineapple and watching tea being harvested. From my volcanic lair to the greenest of green landscapes, it's all in a day's itinerary when you visit this remote Atlantic archipelago. Covered with a verdant countryside and exotic, colourful plant life, it's tough to fathom the Azorean islands began life as bubbling lava, forming fantastic natural wonders like the Gruta das Torres cave I'm manoeuvring around.

...A number of Canadian travel companies specialize in holidays in the Azores, an...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 19, 2009

• Warm Welcome Awaits in Middle of Nowhere

Wouldn't you know it, by the time you're finished your second glass of wine, made incidentally by the cab driver from his own grapes, you've already met a half dozen other villagers who have worked in Canada. You're on a tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and suddenly it seems like old home week. If you're open to the gloriously unexpected, this is the spot for you. Like its sister islands, Sao Jorge rumbled up out of the ocean floor in a crucible of volcanic action an estimated six million years ago. From west to east, the islands stretch about 600 kilometres and are divided into three groups: the western islands of Corvo and Flores, the central islands of Terceira, Graciosa, Sao Jorge, Pico and Faial islands and the eastern islands of Santa Maria and Sao Miguel, the large...

...By Peter Wilson. SAO JORGE, Azores -- With a glass of wine in one hand and a large sl... Azores have held an air of mystery to travellers throughout the ages. Early 15th-century explorers ...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 10, 2009

• Raposo v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), 2005 FC 118 (2005)

... did not list any relatives left in the Azores, the applicants were from a visa exempt country. T... reasonable that the relatives could travel to the Azores to visit the applicants. 3. In relat...

• Federal Court

• Are You a Book Lover? Then This Cruise Is for You

The trip is being billed as a "book lovers' cruise," and as Free Press Books editor, I'm hoping we'll attract a group of vacationers who, like us, enjoy reading, and talking about what they read, as much as they do sightseeing and dining. All this is totally optional. There are no obligations to read a word if you don't want to. It's not homework. We'll be on vacation here, after all. On the return trip, we'll be throwing anchor in Casablanca in Morocco, and on mainland Spain we'll be docking in the cities of Malaga and Seville, both in the country's languid southern coastal province of Andalusia.

...This tidbit comes from a travel article American author Barbara Kingsolver wrote a... weather systems: The trade winds from the Azores and the permanent warm airflow from the neighbouri...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 27, 2009

• The changing church: West Toronto is a glimpse of the future.

Presbytery profile

... feat considering most of the parishioners travel from well outside the city. . Zoltan Vass is the m...Parishioners from Brazil, Portugal, the Azores Islands and Angola participate. Guitars, violins, ...

• Presbyterian Record
• Vol. 129 Nbr. 10, November 2005