Brooklyn Downtown
Downtown Manhattan
Return Flight
On the second day I joined a collegue visiting Salem, a coastal city and residential area on the North Shore of Greater Boston. Catching a train (Amtrak) in the North Station, the trip takes about thirty minutes and the ticket has a cost of 8$ each way.
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Salem
Other than witchcraft tales, Salem is a really small town full of wooden houses.
Back to Boston, I went to James Hook & Co for lunch, which was establised 100 years ago! The lobster roll was amazing!
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Boston & Cambridge
On my way to the Apple Store in the CambridgeSite shopping mall to buy the AirTag, I took this photo in the Beacon Hill neighborhood.
The sun was setting really fast while I was crossing the Charles River towards Cambridge.
The Museum of Science is the one thing that I am missing to do in Boston. But as the museum is currently undergoing major renovations, I prefer to wait until they finish it all.
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Lechmere Canal Park |
When I started my L-1011 website which went online in the year of 2000, I included a gallery of my high school trip to São Miguel. That was the last time I was in São Miguel! It seems like it was yesterday.
I'm a volcano geek and Azores have a special place in my heart since I first visited São Miguel Island in 1990. I needed to fully explore this island again, even though I didn't visit any new place this time.
Of course a car was needed and the chosen rent-a-car was Azores Easy Rent. And like they have it in their name, everything ran easy and smooth with them. They even share a Google Maps' list with spots of interest in the island.
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Sete Cidades
If you're visiting São Miguel for the first time, this is the place you really can't miss.
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Lagoa de Santiago |
In Sete Cidades village, it was time for a short stop and drink some tea with a delicious queijada at tea house "O Poejo".
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Mosteiros
After Sete Cidades, our next stop was Miradouro Pico de Mafra to get a view of Mosteiros village.
Lagoa do Fogo was our next destination. Unfortunately the weather on this other side of the island was pretty much foggy, windy and rainy which didn't help taking good photos.
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Lagoa do Fogo
Even though Lagoa das Sete Cidades is the main postcard of São Miguel, this one is my favorite lagoon with a more wild look. I remember going down there the last time I visited it in 2000.
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Lagoa das Furnas |