Far out in the North Atlantic stretches a rain-swept chain of volcanic islands, the Azores, a distant province of Portugal. On a day shaped by washes of cloud and sun, Inês Pereira Rodrigues of Lisbon ...

Life – we are often told – is about connections. Whom you know, how well you know them – but also, how closely you yourself ...

Island life, while often romanticised, can be lonely and isolating—especially when that island is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. On São Miguel, the largest isle of the Azores archipelago, the ...

The Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over the largest island of the Azores: São Miguel. Resting at the intersection of the Eurasian, African and North American tectonic plates, the Azores ...

The first time I went to Portugal’s Azores islands to check out the White hotel, shortly after it opened nearly five years ago, the owners, João and Catarina Reis, told me they had taken their ...