The Original Madeira Island News Blog
A quick mention for the Restock Gallery, who have asked the blog to promote their activities in the run-up to Christmas.
More details below.
Restock can be found at the back of the Old Town/Fish Market on Rua Hospital Velho, on the other side of the road from the Madeira Medical Centre.
COVID-19 ............
Following on from a previous post reporting a week of bad weather ahead, Peter has kindly sent a link to the Spanish website ............
The British Government’s notices to its citizens resident in Portugal have appeared everywhere recently, especially online, whether in a podcast by the Economist magazine, in an advertisement on Twitter, Facebook, Google or Instagram. The Brexit-related bureaucracy has to be completed by 31 ............
The last two days have confirmed a worrying, but not yet alarming, trend in the COVID-19 statistics released in the daily bulletins from the Institute of Health Administration IASAÚDE
Yesterday Madeira had 15 new cases of covid-19, 11 of which were locally transmitted. There were 4 imported cases ............
Tomorrow’s sailing of the Porto Santo ferry has been brought forward to 1:00 pm in anticipation of worsening weather.
The Portuguese Weather Institute, IPMA, have forecasted (below) that between tomorrow ............
FN report that the Christmas lights in the centre of Funchal and surrounding areas, will be switched on the December 1 and will remain until January 11th, 2021, keeping the tradition alive, despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
“There is no tourism, but the lighting will have a very positive psychological ............
The Diario reported last night that the Madeira Promotion Association (APM) had announced that it will launch a new campaign to publicize the island to mark its award as the World’s Best Island Destination, for the sixth consecutive time, at the World Travel Awards (WTA ). I guess somebody must ............
Madeira won the World Travel Awards for the sixth consecutive year as the ‘World’s Leading Island Destination’. It took the best over 20 destinations from all continents.
In the race with Madeira for this award now won were: Ambergris Caye (Belize), Bali (Indonesia), Barbados ............