On Wednesday of the first week we went on the way to our levada hike. On the way there a short stop at a viewpoint on the ER110. Shortly after the intermediate stop we reached the parking lot to the Levada trail. First you have to walk on an asphalted road to the “Casa do […]
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Madeira – Monte
Above Funchal, on the way to Pico do Arieiro, is the suburb of Monte. Here, as in other places, the remains of the devastating forest fires of 2106 are still visible.
Madeira – Porto Moniz (1)
Porto Moniz was often part of the route or destination on the various tours. During the day, there are a lot of day tourists there, in the evening, one hardly finds a restaurant that is still open. The town has only 1700 inhabitants, so no wonder. If you take the road from Porto Moniz towards […]
Madeira – Pico do Arieiro (1)
We visited the third highest peak several times. The island makes it easy for us. A road leads directly to the summit. Up there a military (?) radar system is installed and unlike in other countries the area outside the radar dome is freely accessible for tourists. Several hiking trails lead from Pico do Arieiro […]
Madeira – Funchal (2)
The famous doors of the old town of Funchal. These door paintings from the Zona Velha are even subject of postcards. But in reality this is not that great. You can, but you don’t have to see it. Overall the tugboats from the local restaurants are very nasty, as they all ask if you don’t […]
Madeira – Funchal (1)
A few impressions from this year’s holiday. First of all three panorama images of Funchal. The city itself is not the best place to be, but somewhat nice. Due to the extreme hillside location, one has a nice overview of the city in many places. From the Parque Infantil “Pico dos Barcelos” one looks in […]
Old Sahlenburg shooting range
Another area worth a closer look. This morning it wasn’t quite as productive, but that’s also because the trees have a lot of foliage and the birds can’t be seen very well. The area also offers a lot of other photographic points.
Early morning in the nature reserve
In the evening light I didn’t like the landscape so much, so I tried to take the same picture the following days hoping for good weather in the early morning. Unfortunately, in the last few days, the weather put a spoke in my wheel. This morning it worked (almost) for a short time. Not quite as […]
Nature reserve sunset
Lastly missed because of too many clouds coming up and on the last two days because I hadn’t expected a good sunset, I tried it again yesterday. But there were hardly any clouds in the sky, so it’s not as I imagined it would be. But, after all, quite nice so far. The panorama shot […]
A little too late…
Actually, it was supposed to be a beautiful sunset. Unfortunately the predicted clouds pushed themselves already earlier before the sun, so that this could become foreseeable nothing more. Too late, because we also missed the late sunlight on the fresh leaves of the birch trees in the nature reserve.