As there was no direct flight from Lisbon back to Toronto, we had to make a stop in Ponta Delgada, a PEI-shaped island in the Azures, and get on a connecting flight to YYZ. The layover was approximately 2.5 hours, and even taking into consideration boarding and passport checks, it still seemed like a long time to sit around in an airport.
Since we had checked most of our luggage, we had relatively little to haul around with us, and we had recently discovered a few extra euros tucked away in an inner pocket of on of our jackets, so we decided to take the airport bus 4 km to the town’s centre for 50 minutes of exploring, before heading back to the airport to press ourselves into the long line-up with the rest of the passengers boarding our 310 Airbus to Toronto.
Ponta Delgado on a Saturday afternoon in January is like Charlottetown on a Monday morning in September, after all the summer tourists have left the island. NOT MUCH HAPPENING!!! Even the tourist centre was closed, and doors barred!
Undeterred, we pulled out a city map, and wandered around a bit. We even saw a casket being carried into a local church, and marvelled at the unique, fishbowl-like “Hearse” that had carried it there.
Photos of our brief walk through Ponta Delgado below and above, uncaptioned.
Since we had checked most of our luggage, we had relatively little to haul around with us, and we had recently discovered a few extra euros tucked away in an inner pocket of on of our jackets, so we decided to take the airport bus 4 km to the town’s centre for 50 minutes of exploring, before heading back to the airport to press ourselves into the long line-up with the rest of the passengers boarding our 310 Airbus to Toronto.
Ponta Delgado on a Saturday afternoon in January is like Charlottetown on a Monday morning in September, after all the summer tourists have left the island. NOT MUCH HAPPENING!!! Even the tourist centre was closed, and doors barred!
Undeterred, we pulled out a city map, and wandered around a bit. We even saw a casket being carried into a local church, and marvelled at the unique, fishbowl-like “Hearse” that had carried it there.
Photos of our brief walk through Ponta Delgado below and above, uncaptioned.
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