For many, Italy is considered the best country to enjoy a good cup of coffee. It comes in many varieties, and the Italian coffee has a long and interesting history. What many don’t know is that Portugal is another country where you can enjoy an excellent cup of coffee. Much, much better than in Spain…
Category: food and drinks in Madeira
All about food and drinks in Madeira. Exotic fruits and vegetables, interesting drins, in short all the Madeiran goodies for foodies.
Almost free!
We are almost free. In a double sense: we are almost free to live the life we were used to and almost free as in Madeira is almost free of covid-19. Let’s start with the latter: the last two weeks showed no new cases of corona-infection, and every day more people that were infected –…
Exotic vegetables and fruits: the market is the place to go
Like most Sundays, we went to the market in the village of Prazeres, which is about seven minutes away from our house, pretty early yesterday morning (yuck!). Fruit and vegetables are definitely best bought on the market. Not only because of the price, but also because of the degree of freshness. There is always a…
bread and cold cuts in Madeira
Many people ask us how we get through winter with only the locally available food. And that is not really about the food for the hot evening meals, als pretty much everything we are used to in the supermarkets of Northern and Western Europe is available in Madeira. It is more about bread, which is…
Just another lemon tree
The lemon tree in the back garden of our house has surpassed itself this year. The harvest was absurdly rich, how many lemons can a man have in one winter. The biggest problem is the height of the tree, everything that hangs at the top is inaccessible. Unless the tree is severely pruned, so that…
