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The Azores island of Ilha de Sao Miguel was nice but more rural than I was expecting. We stayed in an apartment just out of the main city of Ponta Delgada and that was fine for getting around the island. Although volcanic it wasn’t as dramatic as we’ve found on Madeira. The streets were narrow...

S4164 PDL-FNC A321-200neo CS-TSJ Dep: sched 1235 / actual 1333 Arr: sched 1515 / actual 1548 This Azores Air A321 neo was the sister ship of the one we flew out to Ponta Delgada and was named ‘Peaceful’. Straight out of the gate and across to the aircraft. S4 use a small fleet of Dash8’s...

We also headed out to the town of Furnas with the plan to ride bikes around the volcanic lake area there, but no bikes to be found on that day. My research indicated they could be hired from the volcanic fumaroles area. It was difficult to get through the town itself as they were having some...

We then went around the headlands a little further to a black sand beach where Mstr Scarlett ran about for a bit and as it was getting late we stopped in for a pizza in a local village when driving back. Lovely little place. When I got out for a game of golf the same black sand featured in...

Some Azores imagery: The jagged volcanic rock headland near our rented apartment. Our rented Clio got us around, but it had seen better days. Ilha Verde rentals were easy to deal with. We drove out to the western end of the island to the natural warm water outflow point - down there...

If all goes well I’ll have about 35 mins to make the T4 to T4S transfer at MAD which should be doable. Luggage may be a different story. IB check in staff at LIS didn’t even acknowledge there was a delay. 🤷‍♂️

Catching up now whilst waiting at LIS for the start of return travel, but with a problem: I’m flying IB to CAI today and the first leg LIS-MAD is delayed. I did have about a 2 hour connection in MAD but that is shrinking fast. I received an email as I was waiting to check-in, from IB...

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Quite a few restaurants in Funchal, Madeira (Portugal) notionally accepted card until you tried to actually use it and “the terminal never work”. “Use cash okay”. I always tried my card and no success. When stating I didn’t have enough cash I was twice immediately given directions to the...

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Life time status is coming*! * this post may contain complete speculation.

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I will also be going through CGK in Dec and then retuning in Jan. (to take advantage of cheaper fares from SE Asia) Also hoping that the visa requirements will have been dropped by then. 🤞

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@JanP there are plenty of airport hotels nearby with cheap rates, probably cheaper than you’d pay for a day room in many other countries. A Grab or Bluebird will cost a couple of dollars each way. Ibis Styles is fine and generally $40-$70 depending on when you book. They notionally have a...

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A ‘port day’? They’d have been dealing with transfers and hotel being booked short notice and then spending most of the day sleeping or trying to sleep.