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Madeira - 2009 Apr 20 - May 4

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Encosta Cabo Girão
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Car park at eastern end of HPB site
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Roger with view
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Cabbage cultivation on Cabo Girao
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levada nearby
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MSC Lirica
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Once outside the neat HPB site, the local people tend their vertical gardens and pile up useful wood
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Terrace gardens with a view

Cruz da Caldeira
Levada do Norte
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just as the levada emerges from the tunnel
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the damage to the railing is probably not caused by vandalism but by falling rocks
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Igreja da Nossa Senhora dos Remédios in Quinta Grande

Cabo Girão
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at the miradouro is a small exhibition about tourism to Madeira in the past. This photo shows George Bernard Shaw learning to tango at Reid's Hotel in 1925. The dance instructor is Max Rinder and the young lady is Hope du Barri
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Encosta Cabo Girão
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Blocks MH and MJ

Funchal
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list of cruise ship visits to Funchal displayed in the reception area at Encosta Cabo Girão
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sailwx.info is a wonderful site that keeps track of hundreds of ships. This screen shot shows that apparently Albatros has only got to Morocco since last Sunday
port area
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the Porto Santo car ferry has just come in so a bit of traffic control is required
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note the pistol on the hip of this traffic cop
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MSC Lirica
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Reid's Palace Hotel
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at Estrada Monumental 139
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their website designers apparently saw nothing wrong with flopping this view from the hotel
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1933 price list for Reid's - on display at the exhibition at Cabo Girão - see link

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