Travel blob

When I made my little Portugal – Spain – Italy round trip in 2018 I was not smart enough to take my running shoes with me.

We arrived at the last stop in Portugal, the second largest city in the country, Porto. Although the city has a population of only 240,000, including the suburbs and other surrounding areas, it is already 1.8 million.

Now we go to the island of Sao Jorge, which is located opposite Pico. The 246 square kilometers cover just over nine thousand people.

So, as I promised, I’ll write about Pico in a little more detail, given that I was lucky enough to climb as well.

I’m on vacation right now within the “vacation,” which means I don’t work exceptionally, and I came for a week to the island of Pico, where there’s hardly any phone / internet signal strength, luckily.

One of the benefits of hostel life beyond cheapness is that you can meet great people. Those who stay in such a place are usually open, positive people; they seek each other’s company and trust each other almost immediately. So, there are those who would have to be gathered back at home with butterfly nets […]

The place I came here bears the incomprehensible name of “Miradouro da Boca do Inferno”, which can be translated as “Lookout from the Mouth of Hell.” One only wonders about this because it is one of the most beautiful places in the world.

Probably Terra Nostra is the most beautiful botanical garden in the world.