Tag: Festival
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Exploring Ilha das Alves: Birds, Koi, and Family Fun
Today, we explored Bird Island, where girls fed enormous Koi Carp and squawking Macaws. After a free beach plunge, we crashed a Festa for food, drinks, and lots of merry-making. Sleep came easy!
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Festa Celebration and Balustrade Restoration Stories
A guy enjoys a bustling fish festival, overindulges, regrets it, and realizes age means hangover recovery isn’t what it used to be, all while repainting a balustrade.
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Experience the Festa: Music, Food, and Poncha on Madeira
June means FESTA! The island parties with music, food, and potent Poncha (it’s basically sugarcane rocket fuel). After nights of fun and overindulging, I’m done drinking—until next year!
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Exploring Camara de Lobos: Seafood, Friends, and Festivals
So, we had a delightful lunch with Mack, a bald retiree with a shockingly grumpy demeanor, and Annie, a snorting laugh machine, at a fancy seafood spot. Sangria: delicious, but brings tears to your wallet!
Grumpy in Madeira 