Day 9

Funchal Madeira! Our tour took us to Camara de Lobos, a small fishing village made famous by Winston Churchill and then we were off to Cabo Girao, the highest sea cliff in Europe and the second highest in the world.

Land!

We woke up on day 9 and we were at Funchal, Madeira!
Beautiful sunrise

We got up earlier than we had the whole trip. We booked a tour today and it left at 9am. It was worth it to see the sunrise!
Tugboat

The tugboat arrived to guide the ship in to port.
More sunrise

Bill took some really good pics of the sunrise. So pretty!
Bridge

We finally saw people on the side bridge!
Clouds

The clouds made the sunrise beautiful. We stayed on our balcony for a long time just watching it.
Blue sky

Before we had to go for breakfast we saw some blue sky peek through. We were glad. We were afraid it was going to rain.
Tour time!

Waiting for our tour to be called. The ship has to be cleared first.
Not yet

We've been to Funchal, Madeira before when we took a cruise out of Barcelona. On that trip we went on the "Best of" tour. This tim…
The Epic

The ship was so HUGE!
Camara de Lobos

Our first stop was Camara de Lobos. A fishing village used by Winston Churchill to create beautiful (and famous?) island paintings…
Churchill balcony

When Winston Churchill was painting, he'd sit on a balcony up on the left anf look down at the fishing village.
Lighthouse

The village was baeutiful! It had everything: palm trees, brightly painted wooden boats and a lighthouse!
Cute village!

The village was really pretty! It was a combination of houses and shops.
Fishing boats

We went nuts taking pictures of the fishing boats.
Shops

We didn't have time to shop. It was a real quick stop on the tour so you could either take pictures or stop at one or two shops.
Felismina

Some of these photos might be similar. We enjoyed Camara de Lobos so much, we took a lot of photos.
Tour

That's our tour group. A lot of them didn't make the walk down to the boats. We only had about 20 minutes to take photos. We ran d…
Squid boat

Lots and lots of squid drying on a boat.
Squid boat close-up

Loved the squid boat!