My travel in Europe:
Madeira, a Portuguese island, 2019

Content:

• Day 1: First day in Funchal
• Day 2: Madeira Botanical Garden and Cathedral of Funchal
• Day 3: Monte palace Tropical Garden and fortress Santiago
• Day 4: Western Coast of Funchal
• Day 5: Santa Cruz
• Day 6: Old Funchal and Fortress
• Day 7: Big cruiser in harbor
• Day 8: Last walk and then flight home

Day VI, Old Funchal and Fortress:

The sixth day, now we have done travel by busses four days and we want to have a relax day. My sister who I travel with this time wants to do a shopping walk and I want to look at the old houses.

Google Map over today visits:

Jardim Municipal do Funchal:

I take the route through the park Jardim Municipal do Funchal up to the upper alleys that we haven't visited yet. To the right The Wine Lodges, a vine museum.

The street Rua da Carreira, no cars, a restaurant street.

Found a lot of exiting narrow streets and old buildings here.

Another part of the canal that flow out into the ocean.

Walking down the street Rua Ivens and passing an old church, on a sign I can read "Scots Kirk".

Street Rua Ivens, an old house opposite to the park Jardim Municipal do Funchal.

Jardim Municipal do Funchal:

Cross the streets and walk over to another park.

Parque de Santa Catarina:

Once again in the Park Santa Catarina, I want to have a bird perspective of the harbor and see if there any new cruisers there.

I study the exiting old traction engine in the park. There was one more old machine, an oil press I think.

At Wikipedia you find more information about Traction engine:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Traction engine (Traction engine, Wikipedia)

Once up on the hill I see the same German cruiser as earlier. But there are rumors that one of the biggest cruisers in the world will anchor here later.

Next place to visit is the harbor.

City Gates:

Passing throught the street where the City Gates are.

Ribeira de Santa Luzia:

Out on the pier I have a good overview of the city and took this panorama from here.

St. James Fort:

I want to see the fortress in daylight and here it is in front of me. Here I meet two ladies from Denmark and we talk a lot about Madeira, Denmark and Sweden.

After they had left I stood here and watching the rolling waves. Looks enormous to me, what happens then? A man took a swim in this water! He must time the waves perfectly to not be swept out in the ocean or be crushed against the cliffs.

Later I meet my sister again and we talked about what we had done during the day.