Madeira Trip Report

"Pearl in the Atlantic", "floating garden", "island of eternal spring" - the island Madeira, which belongs to Portugal, has many names. It owes this variety of synonyms to its geographical location (with 32°N, 16°W closer to Africa than to Europe, nearly on the same latitude with Casablanca), giving the archipelago, which also encloses the sister-island Porto Santo, the uninhabited "Ilhas Selvagens" and the Desertas-islands, a virtually constantly mild subtropical climate. Together with the Acores, the Canarian Islands and Cape Vert, this ever-blooming spot is counted to the macaronesian (that means blissfull) islands. For geologists, this quite small island with its expansion of approx. 57 kilometers east-west and 23km north-south is "only" an approx. 6.000 meters high volcano, from which not even two kilometers stick out from the water. Many of the inhabitants are confident to live on the the remains of the legendary, deep Atlantis. And some a visitor, who didn't believe in the existence of the past kingdom until now, leaves the island thoughtfully.

A recommendation of a friend led my wife and me in May 2002 to Madeira. The mostly exuberant descriptions about the "flower-island" first made me a little warily... however, we made the trip, and the result is - another travelogue about Madeira :-) In short, we both were (and are still) deeply impressed. That's why we have been there several times in the meantime. Besides many photos and reports on tourisitc topics you'll get many information about history, nature, culture and traditions. If you are interested, or you also have been to the "island of love" and want to freshen up your own memories,

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