The Original Madeira Island News Blog
Thanks to a contributor to the previous blog for spotting an up-coming BBC documentary featuring the Madeira archipelago. The final part of a three-part series entitled “Nature’s … Read more
Sunday saw the election of a new President of Portugal, with law professor and well known TV “pundit” Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa winning a clear outright … Read more
Today’s Diario (photo above) reports on a German tourist found dead on in the Curral das Freiras after going missing since the 4th or the … Read more
The Azores seem to have escaped better than initially forecast from Hurricane Alex, the first hurricane to form in the month of January since 1938. The Express reported yesterday that … Read more
The strike by the Union of Dockers and operators at the Port of Lisbon which has disrupted supplies by sea to Madeira ended at the … Read more
Earlier this week all seven of the companies interested in re-introducing the ferry link between Madeira and mainland Portugal announced that they could not submit … Read more
The Porto Santo Ferry did two trips yesterday as it prepared to go undergo annual routine maintenance. The service will be suspended for five weeks until … Read more