The original Madeira island news blog
Many thanks to Mike who sent me a link to an interesting article published earlier this month detailing the breakdown of the demographics of the archipelago. The Jornal Economico headline reads “Madeira represents 2.5% of the population of Portugal, Region loses ............
A pyrotechnic team from Austria got the Atlantic Festival off to a start last night’ with a display fired from the Pontinha (photo from the Journal).
This year’s Atlantic Festival, which as always runs throughout June, features competing pyrotechnic ............
vaaju.com report that the President of the Region yesterday afternoon opened the second phase of the restoration of the São João Baptista do Pico Fort in the São Pedro parish of Funchal (pictured ............
The Spanish company Binter Canarias SA takes over the air connections to Porto Santo this coming Tuesday, 5th June, with two daily flights in each direction. Prices for a round trip are from €137.50 for non-residents, and €72.50 for residents, while students from ............
Numerous news sources in the UK are reporting this evening that the Visa payment system (including Mastercard according to some) is not working as of around 5.00 pm. This is apparently affecting customers in Europe as well as the UK so it looks like this could be ............
