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Article: The only problem with the Azores is getting there
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 24, 1996
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We were driving through some of the roughest country of the
high mountains when a tough-looking guy sitting on a tough-looking
horse scrambled down a near vertical slope ahead of us. Who was he?
A cowboy escaping from the Injuns? A gaucho making his way back
from the herd? Nope. He was a milkman - we could tell that, because
he had two milk churns strapped on his horse's back.
There are a lot of milkmen in the Azores. Outside the towns,
moving milk around - on horseback, in carts, on motorbikes and very
occasionally by van - seems to be the main activity. That is not
surprising: the Azorean uplands make Ireland seem arid - put a lot
of Friesian cows on them, and you get a lot of milk.
We ...