This is where the islands are relative to Portugal.

All 9 islands are considered Azores. We first arrived in the island of Sao Miguel (circled), in the city of Ponta Delgada. We rented a car there, then drove to the Ribeira Grande area, to the home of Ines & Paulo.

We stayed on the second floor, which has one bedroom, one bathroom, and a spacious living room and small kitchen.

My husband dug into the thoughtful welcome basket before I could take a photo of it.

The kitchen had the essentials, but the views were the best part!

Dining area that we used as desk space to plan out our journey.

Open, clean living.

View when we walked out of the door from the guest house.

Just steps from the guest house is a vast farm full of onions, lettuce, radishes, strawberries, mustard greens, fennel….and many more fresh produce!

That’s definitely fennel on the right, and I believe those are spinach leaves in the left/middle.

Ripe red strawberries.

I can’t recall what all is growing here, because I was overcome by the beauty of it all.

This friendly guy roamed the grounds, always guiding us around. His name, Salchicha, means “sausage”.

Looks like a giant flower.

Felt private, quiet, and peaceful.

The crops were separated by these tall tree walls, with archways leading the way to more crops.

This way back to the guest house.

One of many bright flowers sprinkling the area.

Home to food, flowers and life.

The restaurant next door was owned by the same people as the guest house. By reservation only. They cooked amazing food using ingredients from their bountiful garden.

Delicious!

From Portugal.

Scrambled eggs I made with onions from the garden! Simple things we just don’t have back home.

Home cooked breakfast, with views.

We woke up to this face in our window.