Madeira Travel Logbook: A Magical Place, Worthy of Many Visits Indeed! 120 Pages for Your Stays in Madeira.. (Paperback)
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Enjoy writing your logbook in your hotel at night while sipping Maderian wines (heated to add flavour when being made) such as Boal, Sercial, Verdelho and Malvasia.
- An autonomous region of Portugal, home to the footballer Ronaldo, with four islands lying 250 miles off the coast of North East Africa.
- Planes have a really hard time landing on the main island as the wing tips come very close to a cliff, the airport having been carved from the side of a mountain.
- The harbour at Funchal hosts scores of cruise ships every year.
- The climate is benign, warm and subtropical.
- Madeira is volcanic, green and rocky, having the highest sea cliffs in Europe, which are well worth a visit to scare, as you can look down from the summit to the sea 2000 feet straight below.
- The beaches have pebbles and black volcanic sand, a very strange sight to behold.
- The capital is Funchal which extends up the side of a mountain, is spectacular, especially at night when everything lights up. Great to see from a departing cruise liner.
- There is a botanical garden, worthy of visiting for fantastic flowers such as the bird of paradise flower.
- There is a cable car to the top of the mountain (nearly) which is notably cooler, and in another area people rocket down the streets in the Monte toboggan basket sledges, known as the Carro d Cesto.
- Steered and scooted down the mountain roads by two local nutcases in their white uniforms mainly for tourists.
- They don't tend to lose any though, however be prepared to be scared, very scared.
- Funchal boasts some very fine churches, one near the coast seems to be covered inside in pure gold, spectacular
- Check out the fish market in town and look out for the long black fish with horrendously large sharp teeth, called Scabbard fish, they are caught some 2000 metres down in the ocean.
Enjoy writing your logbook in your hotel at night while sipping Maderian wines (heated to add flavour when being made) such as Boal, Sercial, Verdelho and Malvasia.