Melia Madeira Funchal

Lido - Rua de Leichlingen nos. 2 & 4 Funchal, Madeira, Madeira Islands, 9000-003, Portugal

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Lagos rally

A travel blog entry by kayyendole

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... are lovely people.
The programme as suspected is less busy but that's OK as we intend to do more sightseeing here as we don't know this area of Portugal and there's lots of nature reserves and beaches to explore.
Sunday after a good long sleep that we really needed we spent setting up camp, we had a very pleasant shared barbecue lunch with the rally group, a ...

Enjoying the complex

A travel blog entry by kayyendole

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... views to the South and we can watch the cruise ships come into Funchal Harbour and the catamarans, sailings ships and fishing boats go out far below us.
We found all the facilities to be of 5star quality with efficient and friendly staff.
The restaurant serves a range of excellent a la carte dishes albeit a bit on the expensive side. We enjoyed an excellent New Year's Eve Banquet; very good buffet and sampled the Madeiran traditional Kebab skewers ...

Flora and Fauna

A travel blog entry by kayyendole

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... shopping bags with the overripe fruits that fall out of the sky from terraces above the road, watch out for falling bananas, artichokes and tomatoes!!!!
The scent in the air is intoxicating, Euclyptus another native tree of the blue gum variety and Mimosa, the smell of fennel fills the air I'm surprised there isn't a perfume called Madeira maybe I'll make my fortune by concocting one.
I do believe I forgot to mention the Birds of Paradise surely ...

Sailing Along

A travel blog entry by kayyendole

5

... fishermen hailed us and said they had seen a pod of pilot whales so we raced out to find them but they didn't re-surface instead we found a large pod of spotted dolphins with their young who were very playful alongside the boat. It is very hard to get a good picture as they as quick and we only have a standard digital camera. Colin got the best shot of one leaping out the water.
We passed beneath the Cabo Girao cliff and it looked so high from the sea, ...

North Island Tour

A travel blog entry by kayyendole

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North Island Tour

An excellent knowlegable guide; a blue eyed Madeiran called Lawrence; gave us a well informed history of the island.
The feudal system existed upto 1978, surprizingly, until the Portuguese government stepped in and took over control of the island giving its farmers a better deal. Before that Landowners known as Lords owned vast estates that they contracted out to tenants in return for crops and taxes it is hard to believe that system ...

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