Quinta Do Sol Funchal
Rua Dr Pita 6, next to Quinta Magnolia park Funchal, Madeira, Madeira Islands, 9000-089, Portugal
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7th January
After an early flight back to Faro we had a lovely welcome back from The Albufeira Rally crowd.......you lovely people.....Roger and Barbara, Dave and Margaret, Les and John, Jean and Eddie; Anne and Keith we hope the next Rally is as good as this one although we expect it to be smaller, quieter and less active.
We travelled ...
Enjoying the complex
Our resort is a Holiday Property Bond (HPB) complex and Hapimag (Kay's holiday club) have 16 apartments here. The complex is superbly located on top of the 1050m sea cliffs at Cabo Girao one of the hotspot beauty spots of the island. They are reputedly the highest sea cliffs in Europe and one of the highest in the world.
The complex is well terraced with apartments blocks and villas overlooking the reception and restaurant and pool complex. All apartments ...
Flora and Fauna
... winter fires and the wood for essential furntiture building. On a twenty year cycle the regrowth is carefully managed to keep sufficient for the islands needs
Poplars giving areas a Tuscan feel to the hilly landscape. The hillsides are well farmed on the terraces and every available space is used although cultivated the array of produce adds to lushness of the vegetation with enormous cabbages and colourful gourds and squashes.Travellers could ...
Sailing Along
It's still Christmas in Funchal til tomorrow when they have celebrations for 6th January
We enjoyed a traditional Maderian folk night last night and were made to join in which proved quite eventful as you had to go round kissing everyone........very nice!! Well it was different anyway.
The next day was beautiful promising a good cruise for our sea adventure aboard the 'Sea Pleasure' we sailed along with another catamaran the 'Seaborn' the sister ...
North Island Tour
... port has become popular through easier access and has some unique natural bathing pools which we were tempted to try but had not brought our swimsuits. Only one person had braved the water which was actually quite warm around 20 degrees but the wind was quite biting out of the water and with no changing facility could be a bit uncomfortable. It is the only place on the island with a campsite and apparently ferries from the Canary islands and Portomao ...



