dredging

one of the canals in funchal

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Madeira, mountains, sunshine and mud in the streets

January 31st 2011
We've been to Madeira four times now and we still love it. This time we're here for three months. Long enough to feel a bit what it's like really living here. Half of that period has passed, and we're already sure we're going to have a hard time leaving in the end. Like we did last year. Though at that time we were very lucky leaving at the time we did. Just three days before the big cloudburst ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Madeira » Funchal

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

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