Month: December 2016

Best wishes to the ever-increasing number of blog readers as the fireworks display and 2017 approaches. Certainly this year has been eventful, both locally with the devastating fires, and on … Read more

Airport strike today.

Madeira Airport is experiencing a one day strike by baggage handlers today, Christmas Eve. The Diario reports that this has been called by the National Union of … Read more

Travel chaos over the weekend likely to continue

Those flying over the weekend experienced problems at both ends of their journey. If they were lucky enough to get off the … Read more

Ronaldo world’s best footballer again

Tonight Cristiano Ronaldo claimed his 4th Ballon d’Or as expected to confirm his position as one of the two best footballers of the last decade … Read more

Not a lot of news recently, so this is a bit of a mixed offering:

Ryanair

Something of a political war of words seems to have broken out over the … Read more

Christmas lights turned on

The Christmas lights have been going up in Funchal over the last few weeks and were duly turned on last night to welcome the many visitors … Read more