Making the best of my Friday the 13th - Calçadas in Velas

So today it was finally warm enough to go swimming! After lunch today I was dropped off down in Velas, the main town, so I could have a swim in the poça (the swimming hole, I suppose). Someone beat me to it:

Normally, I love all things purple. I love all things to do with the water. But not these guys: águas-vivas, which translates literally to living water. You might know them as jellyfish, but to me they're the trolls of the ocean, and they trolled me hard.

So I trekked back to Tia Angela's, changed out of my swimming things, and decided to make the best of things by taking a walk and snapping some pictures... only to find that my battery was dead and I didn't have the European adaptor for my charger.

Call it Friday the 13th, Mercury retrograde, or just a jinx, but never let it be said I'm a quitter... or that I go anywhere without my iPhone! Hope the quality isn't horrible. Better videos of my travels around São Jorge to come; I'm working on mastering iMovie now. Or, at the very least, becoming competent.

Behold, the calçadas, or Portuguese sidewalk mosaics, of the Vila das Velas. Calçadas are found throughout the Lusophone world, so consider this an introduction: