Category: seaside & lakefronts
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From Sao Vicente to Porto Moniz, Madeira
To follow where we went and where these pictures were taken, use this map of Madeira. Recap: the main city is Funchal where we were staying on the south side of the island (see post on our hotel). In an earlier post, we had pictures of Pico de Ariero, one of the peaks in the…
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From Santana to Sao Vicente, Madeira
Continuing with the day trip around Madeira … after Pico de Arieiro, the bus took us north to reach the other side of the island (relative to the main city of Funchal) and started to climb again as it headed west. See the cliff on the right ? Remember that there were houses on top.…
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Hegistbury Head, Dorset
While we were staying at Bournemouth, V took us to see Hegistbury Head which is located at the Eastern end of an arc that spans a stretch of the Dorset coastline, with Bournemouth roughly in the midpoint and Sandbanks at the Western end. See our earlier post about Sandbanks. On our way to Hegistbury Head,…
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Swanage via the Purbeck Breezer
Before going to London for the Olympic Games, we stopped by Bournemoth in the south of England to visit V. The Purbeck Breezer is a bus service that runs from Bournemouth to Swanage, a seaside town on the southern coast. The Breezer is operated with a fleet of double decker buses some of which have…
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Amsterdam by day
We spent a weekend in Amsterdam in December last year after my business meeting. Neither one of us had visited Amsterdam recently and with only 2 days – we started with a canal boat tour of the city – the best way to see this place properly and leisurely. It was sunny but much colder…