RWH galleries on this site | RWH holiday snaps | RWH home
Algarve - a different bit of Portugal | Tenerife - a similar island in the Atlantic | Fuerteventura - a different island in the Atlantic
 

Madeira - 2009 Apr 20 - May 4

Thumbnails. No border: thumbnail links to a 640 pixel image. Pink border: thumbnail links to bigger image. Blue border: left hand half of thumbnail links to bigger image; right hand half links to image description on the Wikimedia Commons.

back to start of section
Funchal
2009-04-21 15:14:56 Fr:094330 Sq:21151456
2009-04-21 15:21:55 Fr:094331 Sq:21152155
Jacaranda trees and bougainvilla
2009-04-21 15:23:21 Fr:094332 Sq:21152321
Homenagem a Bordeira - statue outside the Embroidery Museum
2009-04-21 15:23:54 Fr:094333 Sq:21152354
2009-04-21 15:35:20 Fr:094334 Sq:21153520
2009-04-21 15:52:58 Fr:094335 Sq:21155258
bougainvillea grows out across the wires over the ribeiro
2009-04-21 15:58:14 Fr:094336 Sq:21155814
Avenida Arriga?
2009-04-21 16:04:13 Fr:094337 Sq:21160413
The Jacaranda trees contrast well with the yellow taxis
2009-04-21 16:06:03 Fr:094338 Sq:21160603
2009-04-21 16:06:59 Fr:094339 Sq:21160659
Note the woman at extreme right taking a photograph. She appears in the same posture on the left of the previous!
2009-04-21 16:07:50 Fr:094340 Sq:21160750
Statue of João Gonçalves da Câmara de Lobos first captain of Funchal (wikipic of same statue)
2009-04-21 16:10:47 Fr:094341 Sq:21161047
Toyota showroom with traditional azulejos
2009-04-21 16:15:00 Fr:094342 Sq:21161500
2009-04-21 16:17:58 Fr:094343 Sq:21161758
near the Marina shopping centre
2009-04-21 16:18:17 Fr:094344 Sq:21161817
the Independence of the Seas seemed to be visible at the end of every street
2009-04-21 16:29:06 Fr:094345 Sq:21162906
Elisabeth of Bavaria. The flowers in her hand are real
2009-04-21 16:29:42 Fr:094346 Sq:21162942
2009-04-21 17:12:40 Fr:094347 Sq:21171240
2009-04-21 17:16:41 Fr:094348 Sq:21171641
2009-04-21 17:18:11 Fr:094349 Sq:21171811
Farewell to the Independence of the Seas
2009-04-21 17:20:32 Fr:094350 Sq:21172032
In the old town restaurant area
2009-04-21 17:21:37 Fr:094351 Sq:21172137
Pizo
2009-04-21 17:50:00 Fr:094352 Sq:21175000
looking down on the Cimentos Madeira cement factory in Ribeira dos Socorridos
2009-04-21 17:50:12 Fr:094353 Sq:21175012
the three chimneys on the right are on the Central Térmica da Vitória - the thermal power station with 16 diesel generators. Despite all that water (and a bit of wind power), this station generates 60% of the island's electricity

Teleférico Funchal-Monte
Lower station
2009-04-21 13:58:14 Fr:094307 Sq:2117611358
2009-04-21 13:59:02 Fr:094308 Sq:2117611359
Looking up to Monte
2009-04-21 14:23:29 Fr:094314 Sq:2117611423
2009-04-21 14:24:58 Fr:094315 Sq:2117611424
Cacti are used to create a fence below the cars.
2009-04-22 14:59:51 Fr:094359 Sq:2117611427
Inside the base station
2009-04-22 13:54:25 Fr:094746 Sq:211761143
Close up of the cactus fence
2009-04-21 14:44:22 Fr:094318 Sq:211761444
When I saw this telephérique, I said "I bet that was built by Austrians" and sure enough it was. See Rancho for another by Doppelmayr
2009-04-21 14:18:39 Fr:094310 Sq:211761445
Me at ease. Teleférico in the background
The ascent
2009-04-22 15:03:56 Fr:094360 Sq:211762150356
Looking to the harbour with AIDAaura moored there
2009-04-22 15:04:50 Fr:094361 Sq:211762150450
2009-04-22 15:06:08 Fr:094364 Sq:211762150608
2009-04-22 15:07:29 Fr:094365 Sq:211762150612
Looking towards Monte
2009-04-22 15:12:00 Fr:094366 Sq:211762150620
Scaffold monkeys?
2009-04-22 15:27:01 Fr:094367 Sq:211762150624
2009-04-22 15:43:43 Fr:094368 Sq:211762150628
2016
2016-09-25 12:28:37 Fr:FSA092 Sq:211765
maps
In 2016 August there was an extensive wildfire here. Six weeks later Frank Ardley took this view from the telephérico. The hillside is totally bare. On the left we can see things like fridges scattered on the ground. Follow the maps link and look at Google StreetView to see the lush vegetation that was there before.

Cabo Girão
2009-04-21 17:53:43 Fr:094740 Sq:211803
Looking down to Ribeira Quinta Grande

Quinta Grande
2009-04-21 18:09:48 Fr:094742 Sq:21180948
Teleférico down cliff
2009-04-21 18:10:39 Fr:094743 Sq:21181039

Cruz da Caldeira
Miradouro Restaurant
2009-04-21 18:30:24 Fr:094744 Sq:21183024
looking towards Funchal
2009-04-21 18:55:22 Fr:094745 Sq:21185522
espetada is meat on a long skewer. It is brought to your table on the skewer and hung up. In this restaurant they have holes in the table and in the tablecloth to take the stand. Also visible in this picture is another Madeiran speciality milho frito - fried cornmeal cubes

Encosta Cabo Girão
2009-04-21 09:17:19 Fr:094287 Sq:22111719
looking down to the villas. The location means that the HPB site may be cool and in cloud when it is sunny in Funchal
2009-04-22 11:37:46 Fr:094354 Sq:22113746 2009-04-22 11:37:46 Fr:094354 Sq:22113746 2009-04-22 11:37:46 Fr:094354 Sq:22113746
the view from our bedroom window. Stayed in this unlikely article for all of four days until some mean-minded person said image removed - not in the UK, this article doesn't need photographs anyway.
2009-04-22 11:41:29 Fr:094355 Sq:22114129
from the clubhouse
2009-04-21 11:45:21 Fr:094288 Sq:22114521
2009-04-21 11:45:54 Fr:094289 Sq:22114554
2009-04-21 11:46:15 Fr:094290 Sq:22114615
HPB have created a path with an artificially tidy levada passing through the site. The real Levada do Norte runs nearby.
2009-04-21 11:57:37 Fr:094291 Sq:22115737
These tiny lizards scuttle over all the baclonies
2009-04-22 13:42:36 Fr:094356 Sq:22134236
HPB site at Encosta Cabo Girao

Navigation

back to start of section
previous  un-annotatednext
previouslike this next
redisplay with: 24 33 66 94 items
full screen     search     index
postcard from Madeira
$_COOKIE['vpt_dims']=×,  $_COOKIE['pathome']=,  $_COOKIE['em2px']=14 - more / less space for descriptions

RWH galleries on this site | RWH holiday snaps | RWH home
Algarve - a different bit of Portugal | Tenerife - a similar island in the Atlantic | Fuerteventura - a different island in the Atlantic
 
php file date:  2023 Jun 23  19:26:00 Valid HTML5 logo! Valid CSS! Valid Links!