Peter's Café Sport

Horta is one of the great cruising crossroads of the world. Part of this is a legendary bar called Café Sport. It was originally founded in the early twentieth century by a guy called Henrique Azavedo. His son Jose carried on the bar and started welcoming cruising boats as they passed through in the nineteen sixties. Now the grandson Jose Henrique carries on the tradition and it is one of the legendary bars for cruisers. No visit to Horta is complete without a visit here. You can get good food and drink for reasonable money and soak up the atmosphere. The walls are festooned with yacht burgees from all sorts of famous sailors such as the Hiscocks who, along with Peter and Margaret Pye pioneered long distance cruising in small boats.

Peters Café

We have had a couple of beers and the famous chocolate cake as well and even swapped some stories with other yotties there. We are not yet decided whether to leave a burgee or old ensign there though.