With the spectacular Funchal fireworks of last night, we wish you all a fantastic 2020. May it bring you everything you hope for! Like last year and many years before, we like to celebrate New Years Eve en the arrival of the new year with a nice dinner with friends in Reataurante Miradouro, well positioned…
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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…
Fighting Madeira bush fires: a giant step forward
A gigantic step forward has been taken in fighting the Madeira bush fires since the bushfires of 2016. After the trials started in May with extinguishing forest fires from the air, the reports have now been published. Maybe the forest fires 2016 eventually even woke up the regional government. About time, too! The forest fires…
#Tempmad. We remember the Madeira floods of February 20, 2010.
#Tempmad. Everyone in Madeira knows what it meant. Still means. The first days after the terrible events on Madeira, I had a very useful tool at my disposal: Twitter. A lot of information that we otherwise would never have been able to get went around the globe in milliseconds. For me, the linchpin was Linda…
