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Street lavel
We laughed every time we looked out our porthole. In the cruise description they act like it's SUCH a luxury to have an outside wi…
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Docking
You can see the guys in the side bridge of the ship. They have the best view to steer the ship to the dock from this bridge. They…
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Port
Taking some photos as we're pulling in to port.
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Cloudy
The clouds looked menacing but we were hoping it wouldn't rain.
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Cristiano
We didn't know anything about Madeira except people on the ship told us that soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo was born here. One of t…
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Madeira
Our stop today is Funchal Madeira, Portugal.
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Madeira
This is the second time we've been to Funchal, Madeira. We took a Christmas cruise in 2014 and this was one of the stops. We took…
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Walking
Our last stop of the day was at the Madeira Wine Company. The bus parked and we had to walk a couple of blocks.
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Really far
580 meters is 1902.89 feet. It was WAY down there!
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Butterfly bush
They had pretty flowers on the way in.
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Next stop
Our next stop is Cabo Girao, the highest sea cliff in Europe and the second highest in the world.
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Church on the water
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Beautiful tree
Not sure what kind of tree this is but it's beautiful!
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Cute village!
The village was really pretty! It was a combination of houses and shops.
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Lighthouse
The village was baeutiful! It had everything: palm trees, brightly painted wooden boats and a lighthouse!
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Camara de Lobos
Our first stop was Camara de Lobos. A fishing village used by Winston Churchill to create beautiful (and famous?) island paintings…
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Local map
Not too far away from Madeira.
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Pretty!
We could see red and yellow on the big island. We thought maybe there were flowers or grasses. We couldn't tell. It was far away.
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Islands
The large island is Deserta Grande. The islands have several species of birds, rabbits, goats, lizards and even tarantulas as well…
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Desertas Islands
After we left Funchal we sat in the atrium a bit and then back to the room. We sat out on the balcony and saw the Desertas Islands…
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Rain
Then it started to rain. We were very happy we picked a short tour!
