Month: December 2007

Source : Diário de Noticias 30/12/2007

Apparently you don’t need to go to church these days to worship your God, as doing it through the internet seems to be perfectly … Read more

Carrying on from yesterdays Queen Victoria blog theme, the cruise ship ‘The World’ arrived yesterday. It is the first of the 12 cruise ships expected to arrive before Monday nights … Read more

The Cunard cuise and shipping company launched it’s newest member on the 7th December 2007, and is now on its second voyage. It arrived in Funchal yesterday, from Malaga, having … Read more

Source :  Diário de Notícias 28/12/2007

If you have children that go to school here then you will need to be aware that there is a new law governing what … Read more

Source : Diário de Notícias 27-12-2007

Front page news today is the poor sales in the shops over the Christmas period … the worst in 10 years for the shops … Read more

Having gone through the Diário de Notícias this morning, sadly I have to report that there is no newsworthy news on Madeira today. As I last resort, I also read … Read more

There was a pretty overwhelming demand to expose the self-confessed Levada Mugger, with only Benedict wanting to spare him, and Osama wanting to recruit him, so here is the picture. … Read more

A second merry xmas wish to anyone who is sat at their computer tonight.

I looked out over the town this morning at around 10.00 … totally lifeless and totally … Read more

HAPPY XMAS EVERYONE! … nothing but fun with special guest Mickey, and Xmas greeting messages today:

To get the answers, click on the “A”, keep it held down, and drag … Read more

Well what a week that was, Nacional beating Porto (their first defeat this season) and Marítimo getting an away win. Anyone watch the celebrations last night in Funchal (live or … Read more

Source : Diário de Notícias 23/12/2007

Headline “When the Madeirans drinks, they drink …”.  The statement is made by the commander of the Division of Traffic of the Police, commissioner … Read more

I am a sort of ‘sat on the fence’ xmas person, and take each year as it comes, only deciding whether it was a good celebration once it has passed, … Read more

Officially the first day of winter today and of course the shortest day, and one of those calendar milestones I look forward to passing asap. Hopefully the next one will … Read more

Not much of exitement in todays press, so will keep it short today.

Its seems that over Christmas pork will be the preferred choice of meat for many Madeirans. Pork … Read more

Only got back from the UK trip on Monday, but the weather seemed a little crazy here for a couple of days. Whereas the UK bad weather spreads itself out … Read more

Source : Diário de Notícias 18/12/2007

Front page of the D de N today starts a long list of things that are going to rise in price on Madeira next … Read more

WE ARE BACK! Thank god!

No more incessant rain and freezing temperatures, no more picking up the newspaper with day after day of pages full of crime and bad news, … Read more

Well, at last, after 2 weeks of extensive and draining study on the impacts of the smoking ban which came into force in England in July 2007, we are ready … Read more

UK Daily Mail 11/12/2007 – It is reported that over the last 10 years that 1.7 million new UK jobs had been created, with a staggering 81% of those positions … Read more

Christmas shopping hasn’t yet arrived on Madeira, according to Sunday’s Diario de Noticias. Everything is left until ‘the final hour’, as is normal for the Madeiran’s, and probably for many … Read more

At the weekend in the Diario do Noticias, a spokesperson from SPAD (the Funchal based animal welfare organisation) said that the Madeiran people are starting to think differently about the … Read more

After nearly 2 weeks on the road, it’s about time to talk about prices in the UK, compared to you lucky guys enjoying Madeira’s low low prices. A pint of … Read more

WHAT’S IN THE UK NEWS THIS WEEK :

The law and order authorities in the UK are considering a proposal where the decision on whether to imprison a criminal or … Read more

Having spend the weekend in two places well out of town, and having the backache to prove it after 3 different beds in 3 nights, your blog team managed to … Read more