alright here we are, we are finally out of the house here in the Azores in Sao
Miguel we're gonna go actually we're yeah we're near ponta delgada which is a
capital city cities been here since like the 1500s is so crazy to think of but
driving in Europe I did a little bit the other day but it was like 5:00 in the
morning no there was no traffic never driven in Europe I've driven lots of
other places on motorbikes I don't know I'm so nervous I just am I
Oh shit! The car was just rolling to there
that's why that's why I leave the parking brake on I just noticed we're
sitting here vlogging the cars like getting closer so yeah there's that so
we also have to get gas I don't know why I'm so keyed up it's been so long since
we've traveled this is just stupid I'm stupid we're now we're new I don't know
what to do you ready yeah let's go
this drive we're doing up to this viewpoint is
Stunning! The volcanic rock makes for like insanely fertile soil so there's just
like wild hydrangeas, these green tea leaves, there's like
different kinda... everything is green and growing out of control, it makes for the
most incredible road that you go through there's cows everywhere there's the
ocean the Atlantic Ocean. Alot of smells you can tell where we're around a
lot of cows and dairy farms and cattle and
they make their own cheese. They catch tuna right out here in the Atlantic. These are my people! This is absolutely stun-ning!
what's that? an abandoned hotel urban exploring we're gonna do some urban
exploring here in the Azores believe it or not I heard about well actually no
you've heard about this place yes and yeah this is called Hotel Monte and it's
been here for a while and we'll just go into it yeah you can see people on the
top right now people on the top, you can totally just go right in it's got a
great view let's go check it out let's do it!
it's completely open you can go basically throughout the entire thing
it's packed here! This is the the weirdest thing, about I'm trying to get my mind wrapped
around an abandoned thing and then there's just tons of cars and tons of
people inside yeah it's almost as if the hotel were still open
oh and that kind of resembles a schlong I just thought I'd throw that in there
we're gonna attempt the impossible which is a photo of just the two of us
in this building that probably has close to as many guests as when it was
actually open because people are everywhere, everywhere!
I think you can see the caldera through here. Holy shit, come look at this!
through the window in this abandoned hotel and you can see into the caldera
right here absolutely amazing yeah let's keep going up there's like four floors
the higher we get up the better the view all these the bad view this isn't even
the good view and I'm blown away so I can't imagine the fourth floor view
Ok, here we go
this carpet is still surprisingly clean, like mud-wise. Wouldn't you say?
I like the the green on the staircase, that's kind of my color. Yeah we can tell
it's very like trapped in time and again I'm assuming it's the 70s I read that it
was a 70s I'll confirm, but that makes sense cause puke-green in the 70s
was a big deal. Is that thing powerful enough? NOPE! (I'm not going in there)
Wow, the tiles are absolutely stunning though. So there's that. Beautiful, Portuguese tiles.
The only part that we've come across that seems like
it's trying to be protected or you know they what people want to be safe is a
no-go zone and I'm like what's that it's the elevator shaft yeah you know this
isn't as scary as one in Chiang Mai though. I don't know I don't often regret our decision
to leave our drone or sell our drone rather not bring it with us because it
was just too too much but today I do because you could literally just fly the
drone right out of many one of these windows all over inside this building
right over that caldera so yeah that kind of sucks
drone regret
*epic hand-dragging*
okay we found our chill spot for probably the next five hours the room
that I'm standing in right here is facing over this caldera when this hotel
was operational I imagine this this particular room on this side probably
costs I don't know hundreds of dollars a lot
of money a lot of money so I can't say enough awesome things about this place
just the setting the activity which is a urbex urban exploring and the setting
together make it very unique experience and again this is by no means like a
hidden thing so if you ever find yourself here in the Azores on Sao Miguel
it's super easy to find you just basically come to this caldera I think
it's Sete Cidades - but come here because this is crazy
awesome and we haven't even gone down in there yet we're probably gonna have to
come back tomorrow there's like a whole town whole city right there. Wow!
I think we have to stay a month! Sorry to our friends who we are staying with we're
moving in basically. Sorry to announce it to you this way.
this island is full of cows so we're over there and amazing view, but the farther
we go from the lake it's just green grass ranchland
look there's all those cows
alright we're on the roof now and I just found something we already saw that
mineshaft mineshaft the elevator shaft look at this! Loooooooong way down!
actually see the bottom right there oh wow I don't know what purpose this served
actually yeah there is a no shortage of ways to kill yourself here that's for
sure you have that weird shaft thing over
there (that's what she said!) and then you have this here on the top which is like
I don't know what like a skylight and I've seen guys on YouTube as I'm sure
you have as well crazy enough to get on that and like run across and do all this
stuff but it's actually it's actually pretty shaky one false move one slip one
misstep and you're done. Lynnie is enjoying the view yeah I kind
of wish it was a sunnier day because then you can see how dramatic it is
there's there two different colors so ones are really blue Lake and one's a
really green lake yeah you can kind of see it now this one is the green one and
that is the blue one mm-hmm you can definitely see the difference between
the two and then they're separated by that small
land mass down there. Let's go have lunch! I'm hungry!
But I want a real lunch
you want a lunch full of whimsy and romance and atmosphere right?
Of course I do! But this burger next to the toilets look pretty good too
I'm just hungry, yeah I'm too. I'm hungry enough for a toilet burger
Your new addiction. The Kima Maracuja (passion fruit drink)
like three tour buses just arrived this place is completely packed now the food
truck behind us is absolute chaos it's times like these that I am extra
thankful that we have our own transportation around the island because
it would be quite a hassle otherwise you need some sort of car or you're gonna be
in one of these buses you're gonna be taking taxis or whatever the hell else
they have I honestly don't know because we have our own transport again I'm very
thankful in that regard but if you do come here you're gonna have to deal with that.
So, the food here that we've experienced so far in the Azores
excellent! good food a lot of seafood which I like, Noah's it's not too keen about
great beef because there's tons of cows on the island so
it's sourced right here tuna fish is to die for they can it here as well and
it's incredible so yeah a lot of good seafood lot of good beef for lunch today
we had two ice creams we had two of these Kima's which were addicted to we
had two big hotdogs, Portuguese hotdogs, water and all that came to 16
euros. no, 14 euros which in USD today is $16.46. So not too bad not too
bad gone to like a fancy restaurant or would have been way way more yeah
exactly we also found that um going grocery
shopping is great and we've done that as well when we got pretty far with like
donating bucks $28 USD so yeah great food really great quality um the tap
water here... EXCELLENT! It's like the best tap water I've ever had in my life
I don't know how else to describe it but it's like sweet kind of it's just really
good it comes right out of the tap just excellent all the water out of the tap
we just did this we're desperate but I'm gonna I'm gonna fill this up the tap
water later the top water amazing I don't know why
it just is. Great tap water! so that's the skinny on the initial food situation yes
obviously there's more to find yeah