Our first
port, arriving at 8:00 AM, and it was still dark. Beautiful weather today for exploring on a city
bus. Glee our amazing tour guide and fellow passenger, found the bus to take us
along the Cabo Girao to the Camara de
Labos a fishing village were Churchill spent twelve days in 1950, with his wife
Clementine, painting. A bit surprised at the many acres of terraces with banana
trees. After our bus back we walked a
bit, saw the market and enjoyed the street scenes. Walking back to the ship Ricardo offered us a
tour in his tuk tuk with a drop off at the ship at the end of the hour. We saw two forts, Sao Joa Baptista do Pico
and then Sao Tiago and putted through the warren of city streets, some so
narrow with one lane of traffic. We finished our day on Madeira, an island off Portugal,
with good memories. Funchal is inhabited with only 100,000 people, with some 200,000
on the island. A one bedroom, one bath condo
will be 400,000 euro. Back to the ship
and had a cup of PG tips. We so enjoy
cruising, traveling at night, waking to a new port to explore and back to our
“home” for two more months.
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