Our first port of call on the Disney Fantasy after leaving Bremerhaven was Ponta Delgada. I thought it was an island itself, but it turns out it is a municipality on the Sao Miguel island, a Portuguese Island North West of Africa, and to the West of Portugal.
This beautiful island is a little piece of paradise in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. The ship was welcomed into port with the water canons celebrating her arrival, we got to do some retail therapy during our day on the island, and got some really nice photo opportunities.
We did a day excursion with a bus which first took us through the narrow streets of the town, then up to the pineapple farms just outside of town.
The tour continued up the mountain, where we also got to see some fantastic views of the island, the harbour (where the beautiful Disney Fantasy was docked) and some other scenic views. After a short walk into the forest, we arrived at a natural sulphur hot spring. The sulphuric fumes could be smelled long before we got to see the spring, and it felt as if we were walking through a tropic paradise.
I don’t know where the time went that day, but before we knew it, we were due back onto the ship before it departed for the 12 day journey crossing the Atlantic. We stood in that line to get onto the ship, and as my friendly fondly reminded me this morning, made it just in time. We were ready for the long sea days, and nowhere to go but somewhere on the ship, for 12 days!
More about our sea days and adventures on the ship in the next post.
Landing my Disney Job 
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