Madeira Times - The English On-Line Newspaper

Welcome back; once again to another new look to the TMT website. I know you have missed us over the last few months, but we are back again and with a slightly different and hopefully easier layout to our site for you all to enjoy. Yet again time has simply flown by and before you know it we have entered another season of the year and a good one too as summer is approaching and we are destined for lots and lots of sunshine (as usual)!

You may well be aware that the weather at the

start of this month was less than pleasant

when a very nasty storm hit the island and

created some very visual and exciting new

scenery changes. Rain and very high winds

caused damage to roads and homes as well as rough seas destroying the man made beaches and generally causing a bit of havoc and destruction.

Thank fully this doesn’t happen very often but when one lives on a sub tropical island we can’t always expect good weather all the time and do have to put up with a bit of the rougher stuff when it is due. But now it is over we can all expect a very good summer! In June we will see the island celebrating the Festival of the Atlantic and we are all looking forward to the annual pyrotechnics competition, so if you are visiting, get down the town for around 10pm on a Saturday night and enjoy the show! Until next month……………. Happy holiday!

Kind regards, Samantha (Editor)

Paragliding in Madeira

Madeira is the ideal holiday destination to just sit and relax or to explore the many levadas and mountains, and stunning scenery.

Known as the "Floating Garden of the Atlantic", Madeira is one of the most beautiful of the Portuguese Islands and it´s capital Funchal is a wealth of the old and new.

Madeira hotels are very affordable and are of a very high standard.

Madeira Island Tours and Madeira Walking Tours can be arranged before

your arrival.

Car hire in Madeira can also be arranged for those of you with a sense of adventure.

Fishing in Madeira

is world reknowned and with a company it's so easy

to arrange.

Weddings

in Madeira

is one of it´s new products and one of the most unique in the world.Flights to Madeira are generally through the chartered airlines and daily through the scheduled, although scheduled tends to be more expensive.

Madeira provides a very pleasant climate environment, thanks to the various land structures and geographical position. With summer temperatures of 25 degrees (Celsius) and winter that measures 14 degrees, and a mild humidity, its the perfect weather for tours, walks, fishing and sea trips.

For those of you with a sense of adventure Car Hire would be a good way of getting to see the Portugal, but if you like to be driven then book a Tour. Portugal (Madeira & Porto Santo), are the ideal destinations for everyone, and with our experience we can make your dream holiday and weekend break happen.

Our site include information on Madeira & Porto Santo which will help you when planning your holiday.This small but once powerful country, still retains its cultural history and its sense of community.

From the North to the South,

so many fine examples of bygone architecture, castles and fortresses, and palaces of a once mighty monarchy preserved for future generations.

Portugal has

so many world heritage sites, beautiful sites

and such friendly people, makes Portugal your ideal holiday destination.

When anyone talks about Portugal, the first thing they say is the "Algarve".

But there's more to Portugal than the Algarve, there's Madeira.

Visit Madeira you wouldn´t be disappointed.

Two teenagers take to the air when they embark on a different theme for their holiday this month.

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Bottlenose Dolphins

This month meet Flipper in our regular fact file about Marine life found in our local waters of the Atlantic.

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Famous Ship Returns

Lunenburg - She’s circled the globe four

times, delivering much-needed supplies to remote island schools, conducting impromptu medical clinics.

If you desire the ultimate, year long, idyllic holiday destination, Madeira, a “diminutive” isle known as the “floating garden” is a lush, fertile and tropical vacation paradise, boasting hospitalable people, strikingly beautiful landscape, balmy breezes, and dolphins, whales and sea turtles who amuse themselves in the warm, crystal clear waters. Just 350km off the coast of Africa and 750 km from mainland Portugal , this “floating jewel” of the Atlantic boasts a gentle climate, gleaming sunshine and a warm and welcoming community.

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Rambling in Madeira