Looking down to Ribeira Quinta Grande

Teleférico down cliff

looking towards Funchal

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

looking down to the villas. The location means that the HPB site may be cool and in cloud when it is sunny in Funchal

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.

from the clubhouse

HPB have created a path with an artificially tidy levada passing through the site. The real Levada do Norte runs nearby.

These tiny lizards scuttle over all the baclonies

HPB site at Encosta Cabo Girao

Japanese garden

Lilies grow in profusion beneath these dramatic tree ferns

top of Japanese garden

Chinese warriors

Is this the Budai

Stepping stones

Roger in silhouette

Roger in the style of Caravaggio

Looking down through the garden towards Funchal

Nymphs in alcoves

azulheos

The tallest vase in the world according to the 1992 Guinness Book of Records. 5345 mm high. Now beaten by a clay pot in Taiwan.

Aberdeen Sandra also went to Madeira see bottom of this page and other pages.

There seem to be very few dogs in Madeira and most of those we saw were asleep

Canna lilies

Spot the frogs! Who definitely knew the croaking chorus!

Crocosmia

Ancient olive tree and lavender