Month: July 2015

Very little news recently as the holiday season starts for the locals, so this post has been padded out a little! The photo below is from the (relatively) new Miradouro do Paredão overlooking Curral das Freiras (Nuns Valley). The area around the viewpoint is the site of an intensive ............  ...read more

“Mobility Allowance” to be announced

The Diario reports that the Portuguese Council of Ministers will today announce the new regime of “mobility allowances” for air travel between Madeira and the continent. Exact details have ............  ...read more

Quinta do Lorde debts

Hot on the heels of the Madeira Regency Palace debacle comes the latest details of the financial plight of anther tourist development which has been struggling since its inception. The Diario yesterday reported on Quinta do Lorde, located in Canical as you head out to Ponta de ............  ...read more

Madeira Regency Palace

This story seems to be without any fresh developments of late, having generated a huge amount of interest over the last week with some days on the blog seeing over 2000 visitors, nearly double the daily average.  ............  ...read more

Madeira Regency Palace closes

There has been a huge amount of interest in this story so this will be a one off blog – there are now over seventy “Comments”, a lot from timeshare owners, on the ............  ...read more