We spent the first day checking out the city, which turned out to be quite small. My highlights would have to be the amazing views from what seemed to be an abandoned church up on a hill, a beautiful peaceful corner in the Garden José do Canto and having coffee in the main square, which allowed us to have a glimpse at a bride being driven to the entrance of the church in a Jeep.
The next day we paid a visit to Furnas, a civil parish located in the easternmost of three active volcanoes. It took me a while to cope with the fact that the earth under my feet was pretty much alive and that the wrong steps in the wrong place at the wrong time could cost me dearly; but it didn´t take me any effort whatsoever to make the best out of the positive side of it all, which includes thermal baths, a very tasty dish cooked using the earth´s heat and a wide variety of mineral waters, some of which with healing properties.
We were unable to make plans for the day after this because a tropical storm by the name of "Gordon" was making its way to the island. As it turned out, it wasn´t as destructive as anticipated and we ended-up having coffee by the sea, spending a couple of hours in the swimming pool and, in the evening, eating dinner in the fancy marina.
On our last day on the island, we arranged to go to Lagoa das 7 Cidades and what a nice idea it was for it felt great to stand up in the mountains and stare at all those precious gifts of nature around us. A couple of hours after that, the time had come to move on to another island.
To be continued...
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