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Month: March 2014

Praia Formosa. Bowbelle. Desertas islands “protected”

Monday, March 31, 2014Wednesday, March 26, 2014

The tunnel at Doca de Cavacas, linking Praia Formosa to the Centromar area remains closed with conflicting reports as to when it will re-open. The Diario last week said it was scheduled for before the summer, including the repair of the pathway from the Regency Yacht Bar (whose staff, ............  ...read more

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Atlantis hotel. AJJ anniversary. Ronaldo. Funchal seafront latest photos.

Wednesday, March 19, 2014Wednesday, March 19, 2014

I was alerted to some great footage of the the old Atlantis hotel at the end of the airport runway and its demolition in March 2000. It was actually part of a complex was built between 1970 and 1972 and included a hotel, holiday apartments, English bar and games room, a shopping centre with cinema, ............  ...read more

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New Ronaldo/Pestana hotel? Budget. Portuguese expat blog.

Saturday, March 15, 2014Thursday, March 13, 2014

CR7 hotel rumours

I keep hearing rumours of a joint project between Pestana and Cristiano Ronaldo to develop a new “boutique” hotel in Funchal bearing the “CR7” brand. This could possibly replace the new building at Praça do Mar that sits on the site of the old container port west of the Marina/Beer ............  ...read more

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Business growth. TAP – new flights. New fiscal card. Anona Festival.

Monday, March 10, 2014Friday, March 7, 2014

Business growth

The headline in today’s Diario highlights a little evidence of a recovering economy with the news that February saw a reversal of the trend of recent months with the number of companies created in Madeira being higher than those that closed.

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TAP adds 10 destinations

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Quinta do Lorde. Carnival. Blipfoto.

Monday, March 10, 2014Saturday, March 1, 2014
Quinta do Lorde Project today has an uncertain future.

A cloud has settled over the future of 262 workers at the Quinta do Lorde resort east of Caniçal. They were reported to have been summoned to a meeting on Thursday where they were told that the Arab investment group had notified the banks on Monday of its withdrawal from the ............  ...read more

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