Horta, Portugal: A couple of years ago we went to visit the Azorean Islands of Portugal.
Since then I’ve had these photos in a “waiting to be published” folder on my computer. Today I figured that it was about time to post them in this point&shoot gallery:
Horta (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈɔɾtɐ]) is a single municipality and city in the western part of the Archipelago of the Azores, encompassing the island of Faial. The population in 2011 was 14,994,[1] in an area of 173.06 km².[2] The city of Horta itself has a population of about 7,000.[3] – Wikipedia
Night waves hit Horta in this music clip:
Related posts:
- More from Horta: https://cardinalguzman.wordpress.com/?s=horta
- More from Portugal: https://cardinalguzman.wordpress.com/?s=portugal
- Check out Jo’s Monday Walk: http://restlessjo.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/jos-monday-walk-the-village-of-giverny/
Cardinal Guzman 
How beautiful, CG: love the night waves, and the image before that clip.
Thanks. I’m playing melodica and guitar in that clip 🙂
Lovely galleries, Cardinal! It looks very much as I expected from my Portuguese travels. I’ve been to Madeira but the Azores are still on my list.
Love that ‘telescope’ effect you have. Very many thanks for joining in. I enjoyed your contribution. 🙂
I enjoyed joining your post. A great way to liven up this Monday. I haven’t been to Madeira. I enjoyed the Azores, but it’s not a place that I’ll return to.
Did you see more than one island? I love your binoculars shots. I thought that’s what you’d done but wasn’t sure if it was an effect. 🙂
Yes, we saw Terceira, Faial and São Miguel. They were all nice and scenic, but a bit boring.
Glad you finally published them! I would love to go! It looks wonderful .
We saw a lot of beautiful sights on our trip there, without a doubt.
Wish my summer postcards looked like these!
You have a lot interesting photos that would have made great postcards. Especially your people photos, I love them!
fab set of photos.
Thank you very much mister.
Lovely set of photos, Cardinal. The was looks refreshing…and icy. It looked windy there, but I bet the view was spectacular in reality.
The weather there was changing a lot between: rainy, sunny, windy and warm.
Very nice images and the music is great too!
Thank you Malin. I recorded this and a few other songs about 8 years ago.
Couldn’t listen to the music but only look at the pictures: fantastic!
Read that you won’t return to the Azores…what’s wrong with them ?
I’m asking you because they’re on my list!
Perhaps you can try to watch the clip on YouTube? Here’s the link: youtube.com/watch?v=Y2y2eQEFm2Q
I won’t return to the Azores because for me it was nice, but not enough action. I like cities, people, pubs, art, concerts, etc. The food was a bit disappointing too: there was a lot of boring restaurants there, but we did find one small family restaurant that was totally amazing (not in Horta, but on another island).
Thanks CG for replying to my comment and giving me all those details…
I went and see the clip…..Great!
Great pics 🙂
Thank you.
Love the music in the video. Such magical images of those night waves. Great picture gallery too. 🙂
Thanks. I’m especially glad that you like the music.
Lovely shots, C!
Thanks R!
Somebody wanted to screw up your score 😛 I wanted to leave comments under individual pics but it did not let me on every one of them. Is that you playing again??
No, I don’t know why it didn’t work, but I received comments from you on several photos and I’m grateful for that. Thank you Paula!
Wonderful pictures (really interesting the vignette effect on landscapes!). I have never been in Azores but I am from Pontevedra, a little city on the North of Portugal. Because of this, I feel Portugal as a second home, and I always enjoy the language, landscapes, food, people…of this wonderful country. Now it is so far away! I hope to get the chance to visit it again in my next trip to Spain!
It’s not a vignette effect, it’s actually shot through one of those binoculars that you’ll find on vantage points around the world. To our disappointment there was a lot of boring restaurants in the Azores, but we did mange to find one that was seriously great and one that was good.
Where in the world do you live now?
Oh! nice!
I came to Chile on January last year. I live in Santiago, the main city. My husband was offered a job and we decided to move. At that moment we were living in London. Now we both are working and having a life here. And you?
I live in Oslo, Norway. A boring city in Scandinavia that tourists seem to love.
Trivia: The most common name in Oslo is Mohammed (http://www.osloby.no/Mohammed-det-vanligste-navnet-i-Oslo-7683203.html.)
Ahahaha I would have never ever thought of Mohammed!
Beautiful photos! I really love #15, the turquoise waves and storm clouds. Fabulous! 🙂
Thanks for stopping by and commenting in my blog Linda. I also like the ones with the sea and the clouds. The light was perfect at that time.
Beautiful via your lens! Great capture of the clouds!
Thanks a lot Amy.
Like your new gravatar 🙂
Thanks again. I made it from an old photo (shot around 2000/2002).
Loved the crashing waves…marvelous. And how vividly I could hear the hiss of the sea in those crackling blue images. Absolutely wonderful! Cheers,
Autumn Jade
Thank you very much Jade. Have a wonderful autumn.
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I’ve never been to the Azores, and I’ve never heard of Horta before ut I once used photos of the landscape to help compose a fantasy art painting. It’s a very beautiful part of the world.
The Azores is an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, the last stop for sailors travelling between the U.S. and Europe. The scenery there is amazing and the weather is quite unpredictable.
Lovely series CG . Intrigued as not many or rather ANYone who’s visited . Husband keen on the geology aspect . It’s become considerably less expensive to travel there now but maybe expensive to stay I don’t know . One for the future . Loved the little music clip … and that coastline and waters gorgeously rugged .. my kind of place 🙂
I’m glad that you liked my music. It wasn’t expensive in the Azores when we were there, but I don’t know about the prices these days…
I’ve enjoyed this virtual tour of Acores a lot!
Thanks for all your wonderful feedback on this post and photos Paula. Highly appreciated.