After we had spent Monday with all sorts of organizational things, as for example of purchasing a car rentals, could go on Tuesday morning at last.

The anticlockwise, we followed along the road on the South coast up to the Western tip of the island. Here in the years 1957/58 to come by a volcanic eruption of new land to the island's area. The old Lighthouse stands since somewhat lost far away from the coast.

Over a year later Faial was shaken by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions . Many houses were abandoned at this time, some through the thick clouds of ash spill, some destroyed, others remained undamaged. The fruit- and vineyards, they were in this part of the island, conquered then the natural over the years. But often you can see still wine grapes or banana plants between Laurel trees.

Next to the lighthouse, an old whaling port was, which is now used as a natural swimming pool. In the we would like run up but with the SUMMER. A rock“Teeth” In addition to the next certainly some concerns would have prepared us.

The entire history of the Azores, and also of the volcanic eruption of 1957 is explained in a very modern and informative Museum right. To disfigure the impressive landscape not by a building, can you find built into the Museum below the lighthouse in the background. Von oben kann man nur noch ein bisschen davon sehen 🙂

The architecture and the design of the Museum is impressive. So it made us really fun, To learn about the Islands.

But then a strengthening was attached. Everywhere on the island, you will find picnic areas. Unfortunately we had nothing for a picnic. Restaurants and bar were not especially well represented, but sometime around 2 P.m. we had found but have a cookies.

The grill was the Caribbean standard more, but the food smells really good. During the very long wait, ran together again the water in the mouth us, wenn wieder andere glückliche Gäste ihr Mittagessen erhielten 🙂 Aber irgendwann hatte die Folter eine Ende und wir waren an der Reihe 🙂

We were sated and happy on the North Coast still a digestive walk. The weather had cleared up now and most of the time the Sun was shining.

Before we headed back to the port, did we organize even a special trip for tomorrow. On the Internet I discovered here a way to ride out on the island of Faial. The website had an idea of good but we wanted to make us a picture of the horses on the ground. Pferdebesitzer sind ja bekanntlich die anstrengendsten und anspruchsvollsten Kunden 🙂 In der Nähe des Restaurants trafen wir auf eine Gruppe von Reitern. With the obtained directions we wandered around awhile in the first, to us Google maps finally pointed the right way.

The Office of patio is located in this red windmill – Trail & Lodge (http://en.patio.PT/index.html). Viktor and Anja, both originally come from Germany, have accumulated here on the island in the past twenty years very special. So we decided, morgen einen Ganztagesausritt in den Westen der Insel zu unternehmen 🙂

We did visit the caldera planned for tomorrow then still on the way back. Slightly cloudy although, but great views. Up here, we were still all alone, before it went back in the lively Harbour.

In the Harbour, the teams of the local sailing club with the traditional whaling boats for the popular races between the islands of trained. Without keel with the large sail area, you need at least six people, to have enough counterweight, so that the large sail area didn't puts the boat on the side. How small the world is actually was aware, als wir hier wieder auf Viktor von Patio stießen 🙂 Der segelt nämlich regelmäßig mit seinen Freunden in Horta 🙂