Sunset view looking west toward the village of Caniçal, driving back from our lovely end-of-day visit to Ponta de São Lourenço, which you’ve seen before :-).
In the left-hand photo below, you’ll see stalls from Funchal’s little Christmas market, something I noticed in pretty much every town and village we passed through.
Sunrise four weeks ago from my little apartment in Funchal, and various images of the city from my walks that Friday. Today marks 350 days with at least one post per day, which of course means, dear readers, that you & I get a break after another two weeks, always assuming I manage to keep this up for those two remaining weeks. I’m trying to NOT take photos each time I see something pretty so as to reduce photo backlog and thus sense of obligation to continue eternally. Given the multiple weeks of rainy grey weather we’ve had here in A’dam, that’s easier at this time of year than it was during our lovely, sunny summer.
A selection of the flora of Madeira. Below middle, a banana flower with above it some early-forming bananas. If ever you travel to a place where they serve it (generally southeastern areas of Asia, in my experience), do order banana-leaf salad or any other preparation of this interesting item. 🙂
One of my favorite light sculptures from this year’s edition of the Amsterdam Light Festival, which this year I did by boat. Last year we were in lockdown, so no boat tours were possible, now that I know where to find them all, I can go back see some of my favorites again from the banks of the canals instead of from a moving boat :-). The building behind it is the Amstel Hotel, apparently the first hotel in Europe to be electrified, if I understood what the boat tour guide told us.
More shots from the remarkable Curral das Freires, high up in the middle of the island. Another good place to re-visit when the weather is clearer, for hiking and other pleasures :-).
All from the gardens at the remarkable Serralves museum & foundation in Porto. I do hope to get back to the city – and this park & museum complex – in sunnier weather at some point. Well worth a visit.
If you’re wondering, yes I’ve shown you this canal several times before, but never when it was frozen so birds can walk on it. 🙂 This was the day returned from my vacation trip in Madeira & Porto. Eek! As upcoming posts will show, it’s since gone gray, rainy, and well above freezing but still fairly cold.
Sunrise four weeks ago from my little apartment in Funchal, and various images of the city from my walks that Friday. Today marks 350 days with at least one post per day, which of course means, dear readers, that you & I get a break after another two weeks, always assuming I manage to keep this up for those two remaining weeks. I’m trying to NOT take photos each time I see something pretty so as to reduce photo backlog and thus sense of obligation to continue eternally. Given the multiple weeks of rainy grey weather we’ve had here in A’dam, that’s easier at this time of year than it was during our lovely, sunny summer.
More shots from the remarkable Curral das Freires, high up in the middle of the island. Another good place to re-visit when the weather is clearer, for hiking and other pleasures :-).
(so much world, so little time....) 