A new, direct flight route to The Azores is opening traveller’s eyes to this extraordinary archipelago, says Rosalyn Wikeley, who discovers where to stay, the best restaurants and what to do.
Topaz-hued lakes in the craters of dormant volcanoes; dark and stormy waterfalls, falling relentlessly; volcanic rock the colour of anthracite; 500-year-old vines drinking in the salty, Atlantic air—there’s a sense here that you’re miles away from all of it, which in fact,…