Com as estações mais quentes do ano, é preciso renovar os acessórios! Com cores mais vivas e materiais mais leves!

Por isso a Macadâmia trás até você o que há de mais novo em colares!

São peças renovadas em acordo as tendências da moda. Muito brilho (cristais e strass) para as festas e materiais naturais (fibras, madeira, coco, conchas, contas), além da leveza dos tecidos (filó, fita, cordão, tira de couro) e todas as cores das miçangas e pedras.

Tudo de excelente bom gosto, para você ficar fashion, luxuosa, style, lindaaa!!

We have just received a further allocation of seats on the direct Scheduled SATA service to Funchal Madeira which departs every Sunday, the seats are on November 29, December 6 & 13 and January 10, 17, 25 & 31.

Hotel Raga 4* B&B from €499

Hotel Melia Mare 5* B&B from €599

Hotel Tivoli 5* B&B + 5 evening meals from €699

We have negotiated some great hotel rates on these dates. Our prices include all taxes and charges, direct scheduled flights on SATA airlines, allocated seating, meals on board, luggage, airport transfers and your choice of a 4* or 5* hotel.

Hotel Raga, this is a family hotel on the Lido, a few minutes stroll from the famous Reid’s hotel, it is a family owned property completely refurbished a few years ago, you have all the facilities of the Lido on your doorstep and Funchal is only a stroll or taxi drive away. Bus services are frequent, the value in Madeira is great, food is a mixture of Portuguese and Mediterranean, well worth a try and great value, try Casa Velha, they have a wide range of fish including the local scabbard fish and great meat all at affordable prices.

Hotel Raga pool overlooking the atlantic

The Tivoli Madeira is a firm favourite in the Irish Market, it celebrates its 10th birthday this year and to celebrate we are offering 5 evening meals free per week of stay, so you pay B&B and get 5 Dinners, can’t be bad. The hotel also overlooks the Ocean, you can walk down to the sea and swim from there.

Enjoy the Tivoli Pool after your spa treatments

The other hotel we have on very special offer is the New Melia Mare a 5* hotel overlooking the ocean and situated beside the Tivoli. The deal here is on a B&B basis but is excellent value for money, and we have had many satisfied clients in this hotel over the summer.

Boasting a spectacular seafront location with panoramic Atlantic ocean views, the Meliá Madeira Mare Resort and Spa is only 3 km. from the city centre of Funchal. The brand new luxurious contemporary design resort overlooking the Atlantic ocean, embraces the serene beauty of magnificent panoramic sea views. The 5 star resort is conveniently situated in Funchal’s pre-eminent tourist locations, Lido offering direct access to the seaside promenade plus a small pebble beach. Within 5 minutes to shopping centers and recreational areas, and approximately 20 minutes from the International Airport.

5* Melia Madeira Mare Funchal. brand new 5* ocean view hotel

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“Levadas” are aqueducts in Madeira Island built in order to bring water from the North of the Island where it is abundant to the South where the main colonization of the Island has always taken place. Besides carrying water the Levadas also create walk trails in the landmass of Madeira that are the best ways to explore the natural wealth of this island. You’ll be able to see the laurisilva endemic forest (UNESCO World Heritage, 1999) with trees like Ocotea foetens, Laurus azorica or Persea indica and also birds like the Trocaz Pigeon or the Pterodroma madeira and others.

There are many trails with different difficulty ratings, I don’t know yet if I’m going to post specifically about different levadas later but it is easy to find the information on any of the hotels or tourism centers in the island.

Most of these trails will take several hours to complete and go across remote parts of the island so you shouldn’t go alone in case you get hurt or need medical assistance for some reason.

Special thanks to Carolina for the photos.

“Caldeirão Verde” means Green Cauldron; “Lagoa do Vento” means Wind Lagoon

There aren’t snakes or any other dangerous animals in the Island.

Helpful Links: MadeiraNature.com

Other interesting links: MadeiraIsland.travel; Youtube (levada video); Madeira 1st post

Sometimes things work out in a funny way.  I’d been a bit grumbly about the fact that all of my work trips this year had been to such exotic locations like Sheffield (known for its steel mills), Coventry (known for being heavily bombed in WW2) and Guildford (home of wealthy City types who can afford to live somewhere more genteel than London).  To a certain extent, it doesn’t really matter where a conference is held, as you tend to end up spending most of your day in a windowless room, and most of your night in (a) the nearest pub, and (b) a more-often-than-not dingy hotel room.  Still there is certainly no arguing that on the rare occasions you may get to venture outside of the conference venue, being in Lisbon or Budapest makes the whole experience a whole lot more pleasant.  Anyway, to cut a lengthening story short, whilst in Coventry I managed to organise a new collaborative project and get myself invited to a workshop in Madeira.  Bingo!  All accommodation and food provided, I just have to get myself there!

Right, straight to Google Maps to figure out where the hell Madeira is.  I thought my geography was reasonably good, but even I was surprised to discover just how far out the middle of nowhere Madeira is.  The next thing I discovered was that it has one of the coolest (and previously one of the most dangerous) landing strips in the world (it apparently used to be half that width and length).  The next thing I discovered was that it is known for its dramatic mountain scenery.  Double bingo!

I started thinking that maybe I could stay on a bit after the workshop and Oanh could join me for some mountainous escapades.  Alas, it was not to be, as Oanh had generously offered to hold fort in her office while the entire rest of her team went on holiday.  In the end I just stayed for the weekend after my workshop, netting me one full day for a serious hike – I already had my eye on the route from Pico Arieiro (third highest peak in Madeira) to Pico Ruivo (highest peak in Madeira).  There were some absence of public transport issues to deal with, but I figured that could all be sorted out in due course.

Getting anywhere is always a bit of an ordeal, and this trip was no exception: bus to train station (20 minutes), train to airport (2 hours), wait around (1 hour – online check-in rocks), flight to Funchal (3 hours 45 minutes), wait around for next bus (1 hour 30 minutes), bus to Funchal (40 minutes), walk to hotel (10 minutes), finally arriving at 10.30pm, ready for an 8.30am start the following morning.

The workshop, which I won’t bore you with the details of here, was fantastic.  Only about two dozen people so lots of opportunity to talk to everyone and some really interesting and fun people.  Plus I had the opportunity to further solidify the groundwork for the new collaboration.  Yay!  Work goes right for a change…

Anyway, on to the fun stuff: a handful of us discovered that we were all staying on for the weekend post-workshop, and so, after relocating to our respective cheap, central hotels, reconvened to spend the remainder of Friday afternoon exploring.  The island was certainly dramatic.  From the port (a haven for cruise ships), the town climbed steeply up the hillside at an almost 45 degree angle.  The hills were cut with deep ravines, and so roads either zig-zagged crazily back and forward up the mountainside, or alternatively burrowed straight through the hills and emerged onto slender bridges spanning dizzying gaps across the valleys.

After a preliminary wander around the docks area, where we observed the local approach to fishing, we moved on to the relatively sedate attractions of the botanic gardens.

The guy in the jeans stood there, cigarette on his lower lip, nonchalantly reeling in fish after fish. In between, his crony would unhook the fish, then re-bait the line and cast before handing the rod back to Mr Smooth. What an operation.

Bird of Paradise in Jardim Botânico da Madeira.

The climate here is mild year round, and apparently suitable for growing just about anything, so the gardens were rather impressive.

In an attempt to liven things up a bit, we started trying to determine which of the interesting looking fruits might be edible.  These rather attractively purple bananas turned out to be not only ripe, but deliciously sweet, and rather oddly crunchy, with seeds the size of peppercorns.  (To be honest, I took this photo just in case it was needed for identification purposes while we were all in emergency having our stomachs pumped.  We all seemed to survive OK though.)

Tasty wild bananas!

More obviously edible food at the amazing daily markets (six different varieties of passionfruit!)

The following morning (Saturday) turned in to a bit of an organisational disaster as only arrangements between half a dozen people can.  How such feats would have been managed in the days before mobile phones, I have no idea.  Actually, such feats probably would (sensibly) not have been attempted in the days before mobile phones, and I suspect we’re not necessarily the better for it.  It turned out that the path we had been planning to hike had been closed as a result of a landslide (occupational hazard in these vertiginous parts apparently) and our Plan B was sadly lacking.

Anyway, it ended up being just me and a German guy driving up the mountain in his rental car at 9am.  Pico Arieiro is one of those interesting mountains that local authorities have, for some reason, seen fit to build a road right to the summit of (actually, the carpark stops about five metres short of the summit).  It was a bit hellish, with massive tourist buses everywhere and much octogenarian camera snapping (a bit reminiscent of our hike up Mt Snowdon in Wales actually.  Just replace the tourist buses with a train.)  I had to laugh out loud when I realised that there was even one of those ubiquitous South American Indian pan-pipe bands (you know the ones I mean: coming soon to an elevator near you) playing easy listening covers of Simon & Garfunkel songs (cos’ they weren’t easy listening enough).  This guy actually posits the interesting hypothesis that “it’s actually the same 4 guys that by some kind of ancient Incan teleportation system are actually able to be, simultaneously, everywhere at the same time.”

A large group prepares to set off from Pico Arieiro.

Precipitous drops.

After dithering about the lookout for a bit, we decided to set off on the 12km return hike to Pico Ruivo, if only to escape the crowds.  Now, you might think that hiking from 1818 metres to 1862 metres sounds like a bit of a doddle (only a 44 metre gain in height, after all!)  However, the nature of the terrain meant that in between us and our goal stood not one but two valleys, with a third mountain in between just for good measure.  Murder on the knees.

That said, the hike was absolutely spectacularly stunning – some of the most superlative defying scenery I’ve seen anywhere.  At some points, you could look of both the left and right sides of the path (almost simultaneously if you crossed your eyes) and look down drops of 600+ metres on either side!  Adding to the atmosphere was the constantly changing face of the clouds, which sat at around 1500 metres, occasionally rising up to temporarily envelop us, but more often stretching off into the distance as a white blanket hiding the rest of the world from us, save for a few other isolated peaks and plateaus that stretched high enough to pierce them.  At one point I even got to witness a cloud waterfall, as some type of crazy pressure differential (perhaps?) between adjacent valleys caused clouds to pour through a low pass and cascade down the rockface.

Anyway, beyond that, I think I’ll just let the pictures speak for themselves – see here for lots more! (and here for some more of Funchal)

This peak looked for all the world like a massive skyscraper.

Proof I was there.

Stunted tree near the summit of Pico Ruivo.

Cloud waterfall: the clouds were flowing from the more distant valley to the closer one (where the cloud layer was lower). The path actually descended into that gap and then up the other side!

A Madeira TV apresentou o seu projecto à comunicação social da Madeira e o destaque da programação desta webtelevisão é o programa Sublime Fashion, sobre moda, lifestyle e tendências, do que se faz na ilha da Madeira.
O primeiro Sublime Fashion já foi disponibilizado.

Algumas notas sobre este programa número 1; muito longo (29 minutos), boa qualidade de imagem (embora lento a carregar), entrevistas longas que aparentam pouca edição final.

A notícia: Jornal da Madeira – Madeira TV transmitirá online Funchal Noivos
A notícia: Madeira TV dá início às transmissões

Probabil ca multi ati auzit de sau ati vazut poze cu superba insula Madeira, regiune autonoma cu capitala la Funchal, ce apartine totusi de Portugalia. Ceea ce nu stiti insa este faptul ca aeroportul din capitala contine o pista ce poate fi considerata o capodopera arhitectonica.

Avand o lungime de 2781m, din care aprox 1km este sustinut de 180 de stalpi de cate 50 de metri inaltime (echivalentul a aproximativ 17 etaje), pista a fost creata special pentru avioanele Boeing 747. De altfel, aeroportul din Maderia a castigat premiul cel mare oferit de International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering, un fel de Oscar al structurilor ingineresti pe plan mondial.

Despre pilotii locali se spune ca sunt printre cei mai buni din lume la aterizari si decolari, avand in vedere ca desi pista a fost lungita, totusi la capatul ei se afla oceanul. Iata pe unul dintre ei la lucru:

Sursa aici.

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Agentes federais dos EUA apreenderam guitarras, computadores, madeiras e arquivos na seda da Gibson em Nashville por suposto envolvimento da empresa no contrabando de madeiras para a fabricação dos instrumentos…(Veja a matéria completa)