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.
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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 – Ponta do Pargo
Ponta do Pargo is at the south-eastern tip of Madeira. Beside the Farol Ponta do Pargo we had also planned a side trip to the waterfall “Garganta Funda”. At Ponta do Pargo lighthouse was first overcast sky. The waterfall was now not necessarily a highlight, rather poor. This is probably due to the dry weather. […]
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 […]
Phare du Chenal du Four – Second turn
Heavy winds and west direction with waves up to 8 meters were announced for our last day in Brittany. We skipped the visit to Pointe du Raz and went for another try to Porspoder. Good decision. It was as I wanted it to be. The wind was driving the water against the lighthouse. Phenomenal! […]
Le Conquet
The site change went down into the rain. Originally planned to have some location visits on the way, but because of the rain it was impossible to do some shots. First day in Le Conquet was used to have a nice morning spent at Saint-Mathieu and Petit Minou lighthouses. Later the day we went backwards […]
Phare du Chenal du Four
Monday we went to Porpoder as more Wind was announced. At the site it was bright sunshine and some good wind. However, the wind came in from south and therefore the expected waves at the lighthouse did not show up. Anyway, it was a great day.
Around Pleubian
From Pleubian we wanted to visit some sites at the Côte de Granit Rose. With only 3 days we focussed on the closer Pleubian area, Perros-Guirec and Cap Fréhel. The day planned for Cap Fréhel did not work. We left early for the 130 kilometer drive and it started to get very foggy when we came […]