I've probably said before that Madeira has been on my bucket list for a long time so I was pleased to spend a week there and 'tick it off'. It was a bit of a spontaneous decision to go; a combination of a voucher from BA for our cancelled Christmas in Canada, that we were running out of time on, the BA sale for which we were getting e-mails on what seemed like a daily basis and an overwhelming desire to see some sun without having to fly for too long to find it. Madeira was a good fit we thought.
As it happens it wasn't as warm as I would have liked, we were maybe two weeks too early for that, and the tourist infrastructure in Madeira is very built up and getting more so by the month apparently. To that extent I wish we'd gone there twenty years ago when there were many fewer hotels, and much less concrete. That said when you get out of Funchal the island is very beautiful and well worth seeing, and to that you can add friendly people and lovely food - especially the cake.
I didn't take a photo of our rom, which was remiss of me as it was very nice, large, with a lovely balcony and some basic cooking facilities, that we didn't use except for making coffee, but this is the view from the balcony towards the rest of the hotel
It really was very pretty and the gardens were quite large so that you didn't feel that you were on the main road into Funchal, even though we were. There was also a lovely area inside that they called the Winter Garden which was very reminiscent of some places we had seen in Andalucía
Some day by day posts coming up over the next few days.
It looks and sounds lovely! Thank you for the card - I had no idea there were leafy places like that on Madeira
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