Madeira - 2009 Apr 20

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Porto Moniz

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Tamarisk trees? Botanists please identify

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Ribeira da Janela

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Sea pinnacle

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looking back to Porto Moniz

above Ribeira da Janela

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looking down to Seixal

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Cruz da Caldeira

200 metres up the road to Fontainhas

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The long flight of steps in the middle of this view leads up to the Santuário de Nossa Senhora de Fátima

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Quinta Grande

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Centro de Dia

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Escola Básica e Pré-escolar do 1° Ciclo da Quinta Grande

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Igreja

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Nossa Senhora dos Remédios More Senhoras

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Vera Cruz

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Estreito de Câmara de Lobos

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Igreja da Nossa Senhora da Graça in Rua Cónego Agostinho Figueira de Faria. I looked up this good canon. Google's translation of an article about him says: "by resolution buddy of 18 May 1995 the City Council Chamber of the Wolves gave their name to the street between the apricot and Largo's skate". More Senhoras

looking across to Garachico. Igreja da Nossa Senhora do Bom Sucesso. More Senhoras

Lourencinha

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apparent gradient 1:3

Ribeira Real

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Pizo

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Pico das Arrudas

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from bridge over motorway

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from NW of church

Pico dos Barcelos

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Igreja in Santo Antonio 32.811281,-17.248664

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São Martinho

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Quebradas

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Cabo Girão

One evening we heard ecclesiastical music being broadcast over loudspeakers and we saw candles moving through the woods recalling the Ave Maria sequence in Disney's Fantasia. Roger followed the sound and it led him to the summit of the Cabo Girão promontory where stands the Capela de Nossa Senhora de Fátima (babel fish version). It was crowded with people taking part in a Peregrinação ao Santuário de Nossa Senhora de Fátima (babel fish on the pilgrimage and local copy).

Santuário de Nossa Senhora de Fátima

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next morning it looked like this. More Senhoras

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Health and Safety may not have visited the sugar cane factory but they have seen to it that live candles are forbidden within Portuguese churches. This outside stand is for burning candles

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A small room stands near the chapel. I believe it is the original 1931 chapel. Inside is this curious collection of wax (?) heads.

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Looking down the long flight of steps to Cruz da Caldeira. See this view in the opposite direction

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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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