The original Madeira island news blog
This week (31st October and 1st November) sees the Chestnut Festival in the Nuns Valley, organised by the Curral das Freiras People’s House to promote this important regional agricultural product. The popular event ............
The unusually hot weather in Madeira looks set to continue for a while at least. Temperatures in Funchal hit 27ºC yesterday. The Portuguese Institute of the Sea and the Atmospheric (IPMA) yesterday issued an orange alert for hot weather in Madeira – South ............
The Funchal Ecotrail is taking place this morning, covered by a very effective live blog here. There are ............
Madeira’s Cristiano Ronaldo was, as expected, crowned the best soccer player in the world for the second year running at Fifa’s The Best awards gala last night in London. The four-time Ballon d’Or winner won a La Liga and Champions League double with ............
The Sun reports that Cristiano Ronaldo’s sister has appeared to confirm the football star has paid the medical bills of people injured in the recent devastating Portuguese wildfires. Pop star Katia Aveiro posted a link to a report about the Real Madrid’s forward’s generosity ............
Yesterday the “Thomson” name officially disappeared from the UK holiday marketplace, becoming the last “TUI” subsidiary to adopt the corporate branding. The Thomson Travel Group was created in 1965 when Canada’s Thomson Corporation bought four existing UK tour operators ............
Ophelia heads north now, to much publicity in the UK and southern/western Ireland in particular. The Category 3 hurricane largely avoided Madeira and only briefly touched the Azores – some YouTube footage here.
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Rather mysteriously, a link that was posted on Trip Advisor to the previous blog was closed as “inappropriate” and the thread subsequently deleted on the Trip Advisor Madeira Forum. Nothing to do with it being critical of what will become the largest hotel on the island?
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