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Festa da Flor Funchal 2010

MW Editor Portuguese - Português April 20th, 2010

Para os que não puderam estar presentes no festival da flor desta ano … aqui estão algumas imagens bonitas do desfile capturado por Zyberchema

Perfect Cure for the Post-Christmas Blues

MW Editor English February 4th, 2010

Travel article “This Year’s Madeira Walking Festival in Funchal” published in Southern Europe Travel by Rupert Parker.

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Madeira is a sub-tropical Portuguese island in the mid Atlantic Ocean. Every January it hosts a week long walking festival providing three or more daily guided hikes with various levels of difficulty. The event is the brainchild of writer and photographer Terry Marsh who, this year, had to supervise from a distance as he was recovering from heart surgery. He needn’t have worried; for many of the participants this was their third year and they knew exactly where to go and what to do.

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Madeira Walking Festival (video)