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Levada do Furado

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October 11th 2022
Tuesday October 11– I was up at 6am but already awake for a while by then. Not a great sleeper at the best of times, and definitely not when I know I have plans. I took the bus from in front of the cable car station to Ribeiro Frio, then realized I could have caught the bus much closer to the apartment! I’ve tried to plan around the weather, but the weather in Madeira is somewhat unpredicta ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Madeira

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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