Year: 2015

Cruise ships begin to return

This last week saw the return of the regular visitor AIDAsol (below), making the first of her weekly visits that will continue until April 2016 … Read more

Portugal’s Pricey Petrol

The Portugal News reported last week that despite financial market turmoil and plummeting crude oil prices, there has been very little effect on the price of both … Read more

Well that’s the end of a poor news month! The great news is that Fiona S, who wrote in a couple of blogs ago, has had her question answered:

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The Diario and RTP-Madeira report today on an accident in São Jorge yesterday lunchtime, with a car falling 40 metres after the driver lost control whilst descending a steep … Read more

Tourism budget nearly doubled

The Diario reports today that the General Assembly has approved an amended budget for the Associação de Promoção da Madeira – the body responsible for promoting … Read more

Quick blog!

According to the Diario online tonight the authorities here in Madeira have today admitted that they have observed recent increased activity of the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, which is … Read more

Finally back in business and enjoying the features Windows 10 now that the blog software has eventually been re-installed and appears to be functioning correctly (touch wood!). Apologies to those … Read more

Windows 10

Surrounded by Macs and PCs, and one of the latter that happened to be upgraded to Windows 10 last week just also happened to be the one used … Read more

Revised plans for CR7 Museum

The Diario reports today on amended plans for the new CR7 Museum planned for Praça do Mar. New submissions to the authorities by Mussara, SA … Read more

“Cais 8” has first visitor

The Minerva became the first visitor to the new dock on Funchal seafront which was created as part of the redevelopment after the floods of … Read more

Rali Vinho Madeira

The Madeira Wine Rally starts on the 30th of this month with more than 50 teams having entered. The opening ceremony and 1st Special Stage take place … Read more

“Mobility Allowance” to be announced

The Diario reports that the Portuguese Council of Ministers will today announce the new regime of “mobility allowances” for air travel between Madeira and the … Read more

Quinta do Lorde debts

Hot on the heels of the Madeira Regency Palace debacle comes the latest details of the financial plight of anther tourist development which has been struggling … Read more

Madeira Regency Palace

This story seems to be without any fresh developments of late, having generated a huge amount of interest over the last week with some days on the … Read more

Madeira Regency Palace closes

There has been a huge amount of interest in this story so this will be a one off blog – there are now over seventy “Comments”, … Read more

On Wednesday a court in Funchal handed the former chief administrator of the Regency Group, Luis Camacho, two prison sentences on two counts of tax abuse.
According to the Diario, … Read more

Madeira Regency Palace

The island seems to be sleep-walking into the closure of the Madeira Regency Palace as early as the start of next week. Comments on recent blogs have … Read more

After being appraised by a parliamentary group of MPs this last week, it has been announced that the Regional Government will continue to inject money in the Jornal da Madeira … Read more

TAP ‘deal’ uncovered: hurdles still ahead

The Portugal Resident reports in great detail on TAP Air Portugal’s privatisation deal revealed at the end of last week. They are of the … Read more

According to the Regional Directorate of Agriculture and Rural Development, 2014 was by far the best of the last 10 years for the production of bananas on the island. Predictably … Read more

Cristiano Ronaldo’s mum has €45k seized at airport

Spanish media outlet El Mundo published a story yesterday on Cristiano Ronaldo’s mum being stopped by police at Madrid’s Barajas airport and … Read more

Problems at Praia Formosa

The Diario reports today that problems have emerged over the legal ownership of a large part of the land at Praia Formosa. This includes everything west … Read more

Ferry developments soon?

The Diario reports today that there could be developments as early as tomorrow (Monday) on the possible return of a sea link to the mainland. Promisingly another … Read more

Madeira with three clubs in the top flight

A dramatic last minute goal thousands of kilometres away in the Second Division match between Freaumunde and Tondela on Sunday meant that … Read more