Cruise Passengers Held to Ransome

Ship Under Arrest! Funchal, Madeira

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April 2nd 2008
It's 11.30 am and we're still under arrest. We have a non-update update saying that the captain has advised that we won't be sailing before 1.00 pm and we are allowed ashore. We still have no further information but understand the story is now in the public domain (see headlines from both Portuguese and English newspapers). Why a ship with a cargo of mainly British passengers should be arrested th ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Madeira » Funchal

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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