@arkadiusz
Yes, I like that too. And sometimes one can find pictures of places to visit in the future.
That way I saw 'Gargantua Funda' the first time. A really big waterfall, that isn’t so well known.
Are you aware of it already?
Carreiros do Monte in #Madeira, Portugal. You can pay people in Monte to throw you down a long, steep street while you sit in a wicker basket/toboggan. No, they won't throw you down the street for free; you must pay for the privilege.
#Pentax K-S2 with smc DA★ 50–135mm @ 58mm, ƒ/7.1, 1/400 sec @ ISO 400. Converted to sepia in #affinityphoto
The „Santa Maria de Colombo“: a modern ‚old pirates boat‘ lying in the harbour of #Funchal.
It is going on tourist tours around the island of #Madeira nearly every day … or at elastic was.
The picture is from 2016. This year I haven’t seen it. 🤷♂️ #shipsaturday
I thought a life of driving the hills of #Yorkshire would have been good training for the #Madeira hills but: no. Narrow roads, usually with a car-destroying water gully seemingly 30cm away from your wheels at all times, constant severe up or down hill, regular hair pin turns - I rarely left 2nd gear. Sudden blinding fog and/or torrential rain. Hire car clutch was ragged. Also my first real time driving on the right. Great fun!
Not so bad if you stick to the tunnels but we were adventurous.
@kevmckonline oh absolutely! Such a beautiful place. Having the car was definitely worth it and we didn't lose our car rental deposit so we must have done ok :)
You must get through a lot of clutches over there though!
We also took a boat trip and had the luck to see some hump backed whales jumping out of the water barely 50m from the boat!
Spent the last week in #Madeira in an attempt to convince my brain not to completely hibernate this winter. It was an experiment as we've never done anything like a package or winter sun holiday before, and we mistimed it somewhat: the week before had been full sun every day, whereas we got clouds most days, and some HEAVY rain.
Still though, we got out and about everyday, so hopefully my eyes soaked up some rays.
We'd planned for it to be a walking holiday but while we did walk (at Pico Do Arieiro, Fanal, and the Eastern peninsula, as well as around Funchal & Saõ Martinho), we ended up swimming as much - which was great.
As well as swimming at the hotel every day, we swam in the sea at Faial, Calheta, Doca do Cavacas and Ponto Moniz. The latter two are natural sea lava pools and were surprisingly rough! @johnl loved being pushed by the waves at Porto Moniz - he ended up grazed & bruised but grinning!
On our last day, we went on a boat trip to see the island from a different view point. We didn't expect to see any of the dolphins or #whales that were the supposed point of the trip but we did. We saw bottlenosed dolphins swimming amongst a pod of pilot whales - then the sailors all got very excited: they'd spotted a humpbacked whale. They're apparently quite rare in Madeira and even rarer to have one swim right next to/under the boat, then breach less than 20m away 🤩
