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Travel Blogs from Canico
Madeiran Musings
... by giant fans. Can’t think of how else they so successfully manage to spread the ever-pungent smell of rotting flesh and abundant salt to even the furthest reaches of the store. Anyway, in contrast to Guatemala, the last place we spent enough time to buy food in places without waiters and ashtrays, where fruit and vegetables were both terrific and stupid cheap (if covered in any number of toxic chemicals that needed to be vigorously eradicated) but meat ...
Madeira: We're Sort of Portuguese!
... all, and the gradually increasing daily winds, our only other concern was the dreaded siesta. Would flying a thousand kilometres from mainland Portugal, and even further from Spain, finally mean an escape from the generally inconvenient afternoon siesta? On the Camino were routinely caught off guard by our complete inability to find anything remotely edible from 2 to 5 in the afternoon, despite the fact this inconveniently timed hiatus was strictly ...
Madeiring Escape
... of drunken Brits swearing, chanting, stumbling and wearing only about half the amount of clothing appropriate for the weather. That's right, our first up close look at some travelling English football hooligans. Manchester United was playing in nearby Braga in the Champion's League the following night so apparently these lumpy, bleary-eyed buffoons decided to make a mid-week-end of it and fly to Porto a day early to get a head start on all the ...
Funchal, Madeira
Ist zwar nicht zu sehen, aber der starke Seegang hat Bianca ziemlich zugesetzt.
Einlauf in den Hafen von Funchal.... mit uns kam das schöne Wetter ;))
Küsschen
Eine sehr beeindruckende Show!!!
Sehr aufwendige Kostüme, tolles Ensemble mit klasse Stimmen
Zugang zur "Anytime-Bar". Eintritt in die nächste ...
Madeira
So our first proper Ocean Crossing - the 500+ NMs to Madeira
5/10 we refuelled and left cascais at 0930
wind weak and we only managed 50 nms in first day
6/10 light wind all day to windward we managed just over 80- nms a new high pressure area was forming stronger than forecast - bugger
7/10 wind dropping but had obviously reached cetacean central, we had 3 pods each of more than 12 common ...