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Madeira - Funchal in the Sunshine

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January 10th 2020
Madeira Blog 8th January 2020 We left Southampton on the 4th January heading to the balmier waters initially of Madeira before we head across the pond to even more calmer waters. Four sea days to Madeira and the six sea days to our first Caribbean port of call of Barbados Having visited Funchal on a number of occasions its good to reacquaint to some of the picturesque areas of the Island. ... read more

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Following its heyday as a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence in 1822 of Brazil a... ... read more