We spent five days at Horta, eating and drinking well and reasonably, fixing things on the boat, doing the de rigeur painting on the harbour's black lava blocks (crap artists the lot of us) and  did some of my kind of cycling: up to the top of Faial's volcano with bikes in a pickup truck, visit spectacular verdant caldera, then freewheel virtually all of the 8 Km back to Horta!

 

Major panic when someone basically nicked one of our gas cylinders at the fuel dock. The two cylinders we have are light aluminium ones, and really expensive to replace. The bloke saw the filled cylinder and asked the attendant for it. The attendant assumed he had left the empty previously and charged him whatever the gas cost is (probably about £10) and off he went, unconcerned that it had our boat name on it. The fuel dock guys spent the best part of a day trying to track down the guy concerned, but seem to have been more focussed when I said it was a matter for the Police, and found it, down below, out of sight on a yacht. The guilty party said it had all been a misunderstanding.