Bradt Azores (Bradt Travel Guides) - Softcover

Sayers, David

 
9781841624686: Bradt Azores (Bradt Travel Guides)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1841624683 ISBN 13: 9781841624686
Verlag: Bradt Travel Guides, 2014

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The Azores are verdant, tranquil, diverse, exquisitely beautiful and always welcoming. These nine green islands are the embodiment of old-world charm and include an elegant capital, remote villages, glittering blue coastlines and spectacular volcanic landscapes. This is the only guide in English that provides details of travel and activities alongside in-depth background information. This new edition features new adventure activities such and newly opened gardens. With this guide visitors can visit Europe's only tea plantations or step into the hot springs and gurgling mud pools of Furnas.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

David Sayers trained at the Royal Botanical Garden, Kew in London and is a field botanist. After careers in horticulture and social policy he ran a travel company offering specialist botanical tours worldwide. The Azores has long been his favorite destination and he pioneered the first walking holidays in the archipelago, an activity 30 years later now offered by many tour operators. As consultant he has refurbished three important public gardens on São Miguel, and is a freelance writer on botanical travel.

 



David Sayers trained at the Royal Botanical Garden, Kew in London and is a field botanist. After careers in horticulture and social policy he ran a travel company offering specialist botanical tours worldwide. The Azores has long been his favorite destination and he pioneered the first walking holidays in the archipelago, an activity 30 years later now offered by many tour operators. As consultant he has refurbished three important public gardens on São Miguel, and is a freelance writer on botanical travel.

 

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Graciosa, meaning gracious, is the most relaxed of all the islands. I can record little change in the 30 years since my first visit. The scenery is an idyll of pastures and enclosures, little clusters of whitewashed houses around village churches, occasional windmills... all surrounded by a glittering blue sea.

 

One summer I went across in a small boat from Pico to São Jorge and watched with fascination as the slow voyage gave diminishing detail of Pico's coast behind me and an increasing but narrowing view ahead of the little port and town of Velas. Approaching the harbor I could not but be aware of the huge presence of Pico Mountain behind me now that I was distant from it, its sharp cone at the forefront of the island, the high plateau behind like a girl's long hair in the wind.

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Verlag
Bradt Travel Guides
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1841624683
ISBN 13 
9781841624686
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
5
Anzahl der Seiten
278
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