{"id":229,"date":"2013-01-10T22:25:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T22:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2014-11-25T19:45:43","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T19:45:43","slug":"thursday-funchal-madeira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/thursday-funchal-madeira\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday &#8211; Funchal, Madeira"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"itemHeader\">\n<p>Today, we arrived in Madeira. Most importantly, though, Tracey arrived right on time, without any hitches whatsoever. A 6am flight from London Heathrow brought her to Madeira&#8217;s International Airport at roughly 10:30am. She was on board the Marco Polo by 11am.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"itemContent\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">It&#8217;s only been a short stay in Funchal; we left port at 2pm, heading for Mindelo, in the Cape Verde Islands. Fortunately, both Tracey and I have been to Madeira before, so not having enough time to explore wasn&#8217;t a huge loss. We sat on deck, drinking tea and watching the clouds creep over the high mountains, blocking out the early sun, and reminisced over previous visits to the island; cable car rides, and the toboggan experience (please refer to The Boudicca blog, two years ago for full story).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">It was a lunchtime of many hellos and welcomes, and an afternoon of work and dozing (poor old Tracey was extremely tired from her long trip, so I let her sleep while I worked on my laptop).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">This evening, after dinner, we went out on deck to look at the stars. Tracey thought she&#8217;d seen something online about a couple of spectacular meteor showers, coinciding tonight in an awesome double-display. Sadly, after standing out on the breezy deck in our thick coats for almost an hour, we failed to spot a single meteor. Back inside, we called by the office to check online when the times would be&#8230; turns out we&#8217;re about a month too late.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">I still have the makings of a cold, or something, and am hoping it doesn&#8217;t develop any further&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">Despite both of us feeling generally dozy, we did manage to make the late-night cabaret; Richard Sykes entertained us with a host of Elvis classics, this time playing to a much larger, and very appreciative audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">We have two sea-days now before we arrive in Mindelo; that&#8217;s four workshops and a lot of wave-spotting.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we arrived in Madeira. Most importantly, though, Tracey arrived right on time, without any hitches whatsoever. A 6am flight from London Heathrow brought her to Madeira&#8217;s International Airport at roughly 10:30am. She was on board the Marco Polo by 11am. \u00a0 It&#8217;s only been a short stay in Funchal; we left port at 2pm, heading for Mindelo, in the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}