The Original Madeira Island News Blog
Apparently recent heavy rainfall in the north of the island continues to have a serious impact, with the road between Faial and Porto da Cruz closed to traffic yesterday – a route I travelled only a couple of days ago (the photo above is from the Diario). Machico has also been affected ( ............
The on-line newspapers are building up to a frenzy at the thought of UK borders opening to Bulgarians and Romanians on the 1st of January. There is a thought provoking article in the Telegraph (eliciting 2,800 comments so far), which would immediately indicate that it is a right-wing view. However ............
easyJet have just published the following announcement and e-mailed visitors arriving at Madeira airport tomorrow (Saturday):
There is a border control strike taking place at all Portuguese airports from 23rd to 25th November. The strike action will take place at Lisbon from 06:00 to 10:00 and from ............
Apologies for the silence over the last week – had a few problems with the broadband connection but back up and running at 120Mbps+ now. I may have to revise my previous criticism of Zon – their engineers and telephone support have been very good! Their wireless routers, however, remain poor – ............
A recent Trip Advisor comment about Cais do Carvão, part of the seafront immediately west of the Lido and before Clube Naval (formerly Quinta Calaça), expressed the opinion that it was “the last place you would want to be after dark” and that “it stank of cat urine”. More constructively ............