LIVE24SEVEN // Travel T R AV E L – MADE I R A
Mrs & Mr Jones
Our very own couple, Mrs and Mr Jones, hosts our travel section. They thoroughly investigate destinations ideal for a little trip away revealing vital tips on a glamorous getaway and also provide the inside track to ensure the destination caters for a range of tastes and wallets. From the slickest city hangouts to peaceful boltholes, you won’t waste a moment planning your travels.
This month they visitMadeira
Mrs Jones knew nothing really about Madeira except that Winston Churchill had been a frequent visitor, her own grandparents had holidayed there some 40 years before, she had participated in plenty of the fortified wine synonymous with the island and finally a handsome footballer (Mr Jones keeps saying is the best in the world), comes the island. Time she thought to discover more…
GETTING THERE Mrs and Mr Jones flew from Bristol with EasyJet and there are a number of daily flights from Birmingham as well.
On arrival in the capital Funchal (warning: the landing is pretty hairy on a runway into the sea), they hailed a taxi for 50 Euros to their hotel, which was about 25 minutes away. They discovered on their return journey the cost should have been more likely 25 Euros, so set your price first.
MADEIRA Madeira is Portugal’s ‘Pearl of the Atlantic’ and is currently vying to conquer the title of Europe’s Leading Island destination for the fourth time. Closer to Morocco than Europe with a sub-tropical climate, it’s warm all year round with winter temperatures averaging 16C, rarely rising above 30C in the summer. Strangely amongst the backdrop of this island’s beauty, history and culture it is more famous globally due to one man, Cristiano Ronaldo, who was born there and he is capitalizing on the fact with a non-descript footy museum, a hideous looking hotel and bar and an even more hideous bronze statue of himself on the promenade… Mrs Jones thought it all utter nonsense.
The island has a reputation for being safe, staid and well, full of lots of one could say, nearly-deads. Mrs Jones who does not feel she has yet reached the autumn of her life,
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