Carnaval da Madeira; 9pm Saturday night Carnaval on the Avenue – Caneca Furada Samba School – Avenida Arriaga; Film: ‘Sur les Sentiers de Madère’; Markets in Funchal: every Thursday; Anona Festa is coming!; National unemployment rate; Bailout programme: Troika’s third assessment mission;
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Sur les Sentiers de Madère
“Avec ses 2000 km de sentiers, Madère, île principale de l’archipel du même nom est un véritable paradis pour randonneurs et trekkeurs. Nous partons accompagné par Allibert Trekking le long des sentiers de Madère pour une découverte à pieds autour de l’île aux fleurs. En savoir plus sur Madère”
Walks in the film include:
-PR19 Caminho Real do Paul do Mar
-Sao lourenco
-Paul da serra and Rabacal
Carnaval da Madeira
Carnaval da Madeira; 9pm Saturday night-Cortejo Alegórico- Carnaval on the Avenue – Caneca Furada Samba School – Avenida Arriaga
from the official Facebook pages of Madeira Tourism:
On the weekdays before the main Carnival parades, in Funchal’s downtown street entertainment activities have been organised including carnival music, shows, glee and recitals, which have aided to the awakening of the revelry spirit of travelers and residents alike.
Image from the official Facebook pages of Madeira Tourism
Markets in Funchal: every Thursday
The Anona Festa is coming!
Full Carnaval details including programme and films on the NEW Madeira Carnival 2012 microsite: http://visitmadeira.pt/carnaval/
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Portugal’s unemployment rate
The main headlines on Friday in Portugal highlight the country’s unemployment rate, which has soared to a record level of 14% and the growing recession of the economy
Other headlines are focusing on the third mission of assessment of Portugal’s bailout programme by the troika.
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1from the dnoticias…Raimundo Quintal says that Madeira is “more exposed to the moods of nature”…Raimundo Quintal The investigator believes that the Madeira is now “more exposed to the moods of nature,” but the regional director of the Environment rejected the criticism, countering that people are safer after the interventions already undertaken.
“Two years after the February 20, Madeira is bankrupt and more exposed to the moods of nature,” said Raimundo Quintal Lusa, considering that “does not really attack the causes which increase the risks.”
According to the geographer, the 43 dead and six missing in the storm did not result in “overflow of rivers in downtown Funchal and Ribeira Brava,” but before “landslides, landslides, collapse of a crane and full of small streams.”
Now, “after two years, I find that these phenomena may occur with greater intensity,” said Raimundo Quintal, explaining: “Because it happened in densely populated areas, because it continues to make evictions of land where they could not do, because if channeled some streams as if I could tame a river is like a tame little dog at home. ”
According to the investigator, to understand the current risk situation must look at the floods of February 20, “but above all for the great fire of August 2010, which destroyed much of the biodiversity of the central ridge, and fractured greatly and that the rock gave way to erosion. ”
Today, “the risk of erosion is much greater, both here in the great rivers of Funchal, either in the river Socorridos [which flows in Camara de Lobos] and in the river Brava, than was the February 20,” he noted.
About the interventions arising from the temporal, regional director of the Environment, John Cooper, said it sought a “solution between what you can do and what to do with the means available.”
John Correia pointed out, however, that “Wood is a very special region,” having “the highest population densities in Europe” – has “more than 40% of its territory above 1400 meters altitude” and is crossed by hundreds of lines of water.
“The occupation of the land for survival collides directly with a hazard,” he maintained, illustrating: “We are very near the sea, which is a risk, or are very close to a water line, which is a risk, or we are very close to a slope which is a risk, or a cliff, which is a risk. ”
And if they are not in danger everyday, “climatic anomalies in all this is a risk,” cautioned John Correia.
He added that if it was to “eliminate any risk of a situation of land”, there was no other alternative than to population migration.
“Shut the Madeira,” he quipped, acknowledging, however, that these situations require that are made “every effort” to learn about weather events, build structures and heed warning danger.
In the latter aspect, João Correia noted the work of reforestation and to contain soil erosion and, secondly, the “intervention in the main water lines,” for “damming materials dragged and consolidate the banks.”
2Golf Tips for Madeira?
Just received this message
We are all golfers and are looking forward to a few rounds during our stay in Madeira. Therefore, on arrival we are planning to go by the two golf clubs to find out details about them (greenfees, tee-off times etc.). So, if you have any tips for us regarding the golf, we should be very grateful to hear them.
Can readers/golfers give guidance/advice
Thanks Paul
3Did everyone have nice parade. Warmer night then I thought it would be.
4Golf. From our experience of Golfers staying with us: Santo da Serra club offers discounts for bookings made on behalf of guests (by their Hotels etc) and will offer free pick up/drop of mini bus service, tied in with their tee-off times……clubs (RH or LH) and buggies etc available also. No information re Palheiro, sorry.
And the weather should start to warm up from here on in…….
5from Dnotica Madeira vulnerable to weather
Raimundo Quintal intervention at critical streams post February 20th
Raimundo Quintal reiterates today, in a documented titled ‘Do not let Madeira ruin!’ Concerns yesterday at a news agency Lusa. For the geographer and environmental interventions in the Madeiran shores of the Magdalene, of Ponta do Sol, Ribeira Brava, the Socorridos, as well as along the three main rivers that cross the county of Funchal are not liable to a weather scenario.
A pair of interventions in the water lines, Raimundo Quintal warns that the landfill of Careers “has been growing (…) not only went far beyond the quota of the road, which runs the risk of turning into a mud path, as has closed a valley which belongs to the basin of the Ribeira de João Gomes. ”
The geographer also identifies the “bottleneck” of a stream upstream of the site Corujeira, on the Mount, as a situation with “destructiveness” in the event of heavy rain.
Raimundo Quintal opposes the plans of the executive Madeira to the mouth of the streams of Santa Luzia and João Gomes, as well as for the landfill project at Avenida do Mar.
“To the outraged locals, who were sympathetic to the Portuguese on February 20 and the Europeans have funded the ‘New Wood’, I call almost desperate: please destroy more of the island of Madeira,” reads the end of the text sent to the writing and signed by Raimundo Quintal.
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