View from the Botanical Gardens

Funchal and, in the distance, the port with just one cruise ship on this day. There were three lon another occasion. Apparently, at Christmas & New Year, there can be more than a dozen!

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A trip down memory island

April 23rd 2012
Please have violins handy - this blog contains nostalgia! Once upon a time... well, in 1972 actually, my wife and I were married. We still are! We spent our honeymoon on Madeira, that Portuguese, mid-Atlantic island 520 kms (320 miles) from the African coast and 1000 kms (620 miles) from the continent of Europe. It was a pi ... 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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