John Burke's a-Musings

Saturday 19 March 2005. We have gone up a mountain on a coach and come down halfway on a toboggan with gondoliers. As you do. We are no...

Saturday 19 March 2005. Another day, another place. We are up in time to see as we sail into Funchal Harbour on Madeira. When we were h...

Monday 7 April 2014 and by the time we surface out of our bed the Thomson Celebration has arrived at Funchal and is moored in the harbour cl...

6 March 2004. We are on deck in time to watch as the Carousel sails into a misty harbour at Funchal, the capital of Madeira. "It w...