Friday, February 14, 2014

Azores TV for those (like ourselves) who can't get ENOUGH of Azores.....

Here is a website where you can stream Azores TV for those of us (our family, for sure!!) who can't get enough of Azores. It is one of the few places where cows and pigs (although we are not consumers of either meat)are left to ROAM freely - not in inhumane "pens" where they can't even turn around. Azores - where cows outnumber humans. It is so beautiful to watch them grazing on the hillsides and to see free-range chickens. This is how farms were meant to be, not some horrid industrial nightmare "factories" where animals are fed antibiotics because they are forced to live within their own filth and never leave a pen - never walk - until butchered. If they can do humane farming and humane dairy farming in a place so remote as the Azores....why can't we in America??? Also - I have to tell you that perhaps it is the GMO seeds used in American flour. I have lately become gluten-intolerant (which I never was). In Azores they voted NOT to use GMO seeds for flour. They make the BEST BREAD in the world (and no, I do not vomit after eating it as I do in USA). What will it take for us to WAKE UP and see we are doing things all the wrong way??? We import "farmed fish" and "farmed seafood" from Vietnam and China - many documentaries show these fish are fed chicken poop....and then we wonder why so many people we know have cancer??? We act as if we had some other planet to move to - WHERE might that be??? In Azores things are "squared" - that is to say "RIGHT w/ NATURE, RIGHT w/ the WORLD" - cows and pigs an chickens are all free to roam the hills - none are cooped up in pens. A relative bought "quejadas" while in Azores (they are indescribably delicious "cream cakes" made for centuries with the age-old recipe: flour, sugar, eggs, milk and salt.....no chemicals, no preservatives, no additives - you buy them FRESH at the grocery store. Anyway, she happened to buy them as "gifts" to give to others in America but about 2 weeks later than when she arrived home. She was totally floored that she couldn't present the "quejadas" to anyone and had to throw them away because they were all mouldy.... OF COURSE THEY WERE and that too was as it should be!!! In USA we put enough chemicals in baked goods to last a year or two.....who TOLD US that chemicals are safe to eat??? Something else unique to the Azores is how they use natural, volcanic material. They realize it is very strong, so they construct houses and buildings using volcanic rock as the "framework" - very intelligent. Also, how CLEAN the Azores are - everything is recycled and Azoreans are ultra-freak-cleans about their houses and streets. We MISS the Azores (and will return as often as funds/health will allow) - so as we can't get ENOUGH of Azores, here is a streaming Azores TV website: http://acorestv.pt.am/ Enjoy!!! We have no desire to travel to any other place - why should we??? Long ago we said we would go to Ireland for our 25th Wedding Anniversary - but we no longer have any desire to go there - it will be AZORES. We love SATA Airlines and it's a direct flight (4-1/2 hrs.) from Boston. One can swim with wild dolphins, see whales, watch sailfish skim across the waters, see waterfalls, windmills, volcanic "cooking". Public washrooms are ALWAYS clean (we never encountered a single one that was nasty - can't say the same of some BOX STORES in USA!).....and plentiful. The PEOPLE make it special. During the Spanish Inquisition many Jews from Spain and Portugal were welcomed with open arms in the Azores (although staunchly Catholic, it's not uncommon to see "menorahs" outside churches) - and the last remaining Synagogue in Azores is being lovingly, carefully restored inch by inch to preserve....the Jews, sadly left, for Brazil and other places, but Azoreans (who welcome ALL) feel this is an important part of their history, so that is why they are so carefully trying to restore this Synagogue. "Thank you's" are done a la style Mexican - you won't necessarily hear "abrigado" (THANKS) often - but mysteriously a bag of vegetables, fruit or flowers may appear on your doorstep the following day. And GOSH, the Azoreans TRY - even those who do not speak English or Spanish - they try and try so hard to communicate with one. We love these people so much!!!

No comments:

Post a Comment