The original Madeira island news blog
Ronaldo scored a penalty in the 8th minute of stoppage time last night to take Real Madrid into the last four of the Champions League. Unfortunately he then took his shirt off (Photograph: Rodrigo Jimenez/EPA from the Guardian).
The dramatic winner was his 15th ............
TAP cancelled another flight to Madeira yesterday, this time the regular late departure from Lisbon. Passengers booked on TP 1691, scheduled to depart at 21.50 last night, were told they would have to switch to this-afternoon’s flight TP 1687, departing from ............
The Journal this morning leads with the many Madeirans are angry with the recent performance of national carrier TAP. “The criticisms of TAP have been unanimous among many Madeiran people and there are many reasons for the revolt”. More cases of passengers ............
Airport problems – high winds: It seems my weather forecasts are becoming remarkably accurate! As first predicted here (by some margin!), problems arose quickly this morning at the airport. By this afternoon, 14 flights have already been diverted and another ............
Winds forecast: Just playing with another App after the success of Marine Traffic in the previous post – this is PredictWind.com, which is a free App aimed at inshore ............
Thanks to Sue, commenting on the last post – I feel rather foolish, as I have the Marine Traffic App and never thought to use it – I thought it only tracked the cruise liners! In fact it goes into much ............
A couple of noteworthy masted sailing ships were docked in Funchal this afternoon – a rather refreshing change to the huge liners that normally occupy these berths. The smaller is the four-masted Santa ............
The Diario reports that Madeira will be under yellow weather warning from 21.00 today until 03.00 on Sunday due to the heavy seas forecast for the north coast and Porto Santo. Temperatures will remain low (15-20 degrees in Funchal) with the possibility of snow in ............