I love beaches as much as the next gal. So during my trip to the Azores islands, you know I had to seek out some of the best ...

You can't visit this island paradise without getting an eyeful of its incredible shorelines. The beaches here are unique in that, like many other natural attractions in the Azores, they feature ...

The island also features Praia do Porto Pim beach and Praia do Almoxarife beach (some of the few shorelines in the Azores made up of sand rather than rocky, volcanic terrain). Other geographic ...

An injured loggerhead sea turtle has been released back into the wild. The turtle, named Nazaré, washed up on a beach in ...

And when Tony Blair's plane lands, as expected, at the Lajes Field air base on the Azores island of Terceira, the islands' national flag flying at the end of the runway will provide more than a ...

As well as the Azores and south-west ... flotilla have so far been found on beaches in Bermuda, the Bahamas, France, Ireland, Orkney and the Channel Islands. The source of all these shoes is ...

Kerry Murray for The New York Times A view overlooking the northwest coast of São Miguel, the largest of the islands that make up the Azores archipelago. Kerry Murray for The New York Times Steam ...

No European spot has seen faster tourism growth from the US this summer than the Azores with nonstop flights, great outdoors ...

The Seychelles—tiny little islands, remote location, beautiful coral beaches. Few destinations ... Bermuda, and the Azores did the same in the Atlantic. But the Seychelles are not volcanic ...

No European spot  has seen faster tourism growth from the US this summer than the Azores. With nonstop flights, great outdoors and cool temperatures, we can see why.

Tremor—a Portuguese word for “earthquake”—reflects not only the islands’ seismic instability ... “I just wanted to get cool new bands in the Azores, the kind of bands you’d hear ...