Thank you for all of the great information! I'll follow the links and print these out for perusal tomorrow. I need something to do while the kids are in catechism....
Thanks again. I'll post back on what we end up doing. I'm sure our situation won't be exactly the same as others (traveling with a group with ages from 10 to 80 should be interesting). Bill On Saturday, January 25, 2014 8:01 PM, Frederick Souza <[email protected]> wrote: Adding to my answer, > > >Sao Miguel is the larger island, and there is much to see there. Your travel >agent can arrange for you to do package tours which include meals and >transportation. On Sao Miguel, you must take a day to go to the Furnas and >have the meal they cook in the hot springs (there is a restaurant that puts >on this feast every day during the summer, and you can see them putting the >pots in the ground in the morning, do your tour and then for a late lunch >actually eat what that meal. The tea plantation is the only tea grown >anywhere in Europe and that was a cool visit. The Pineapple plantation and >liquor refinery are also great fun. We spent only three days there but we did >a tour each of the days. We had spent the other three days of that week in >Madeira which was also interesting to visit. I have friends who spend six >weeks every summer in Terceira in their home there, and they garden and visit >with family during that time. > > >Other big feasts are St Peters Festival in Ponta Delgada, and there are >various celebrations throughout the islands on many weekends. I do think that >the confusion about the feast of the Holy Ghost in Sao Miguel is that I think >there is a large feast of many crowns from many villages in Ponta Delgada >sometime after all the smaller village feasts end which would be late June. > > >NOTE: Not a whole lot happens anywhere in Portugal or the Islands during >August since the entire country is on vacation for most of the month, and >there are many tourists there from the US and also from Scandinavia because >they treat the Azores as a tourist destination much like mainland Americans >treat the Hawaiian Islands. > > >Again, enjoy! > > >On Jan 25, 2014, at 9:29 PM, Bill Boyd wrote: > >Sorry for a bit off-topic post, but I am planning a trip to the Azores and >could use some advice. >> >>We've spoken to a couple different travel agents and are getting inconsistent >>messages on the dates of festas on the islands. Being from Graciosa, we want >>to spend a good amount of time there. A festa on Graciosa would be ideal. >>As I have school age children, we are planning for the summer in either late >>June or July. The head back to school in early August so staying into August >>is unlikely. One travel agent is saying that the Espirito Santa is July >>11-12-13 on Sao Miguel. However, when I research on the web, I can't find >>any reference to the Espirito Santa being on Sao Miguel. A cousin told my >>mother that there is a Graciosa Fest on July 26-27th, but again, I can't find anything referencing anything on Graciosa during that time period. What I see on the web is Espirito Santa happening seven weeks after Easter. Nothing is correlating with these dates. >> >>We are looking to fly from California (Bay Area, most likely) and go to >>either Terceira or Sao Miguel. From there we would fly to Graciosa >>(depending on the timing of travel/festa, we would stay on the first island >>for some time and then go to Graciosa or jump immediately to Graciosa and >>spend some time on the arrival island before heading back to the States.) >> >>Specific questions: >>* What are specific dates of Festas in late June or all of July on Graciosa, >>Sao Miguel or Terceira? >>* If you were going to spend time on either island (Sao Miguel or Terceira), >>which would you recommend? >> >>Thank you! >> >>Bill >> >> >> -- >>For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail >>(vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at >>http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. 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