Todays Image • The Hindu God Of Graffiti

Street art in the Azores is amazing. It’s fun, thoughtful, beautiful, political and literally everywhere, but it’s more street art than thoughtless graffiti. The image featured here was on a doorway near downtown Ponta Delgada and it seemed obvious that this was the Hindu god of graffiti. Ugly defacing graffiti is a growing blight inContinue reading “Todays Image • The Hindu God Of Graffiti”

Port of Call The Azores

São Miguel Island, The Azores The Azores are an archipelago composed of nine volcanic islands in the Macaronesia region of the North Atlantic, about 850 miles west of Lisbon. São Miguel Island nicknamed “The Green Island”, is the largest and most populous island in the Portuguese Azores. São Miguel Island is world famous for itsContinue reading “Port of Call The Azores”

Two Days in the Azores

The first stop on the current itinerary finds us 850 miles due west of Portugal on a volcanic archipelago consisting of nine major populated islands. The islands are a possession of Portugal but are characterized officially as the Autonomous Region of the Azores (in Portuguese they are Açores). Considering the autonomy we found it oddContinue reading “Two Days in the Azores”