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Exotic Life
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:21 pm Posts: 567 Location: Southwest of the Netherlands
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Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:32 pm |
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Kev Spence
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Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:59 pm Posts: 10902 Location: Loughborough, Leics, central UK
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Mark
See anything you fancy at the market..... Probably about a dozen of these stalls selling all sorts of stuff.
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Mon Nov 12, 2007 10:43 pm |
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Jeff, Canada, 8b
Joined: Tue Nov 13, 2007 8:23 pm Posts: 145 Location: Victoria, Canada
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Wow!
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SW British Columbia, Canada, 48.5° N
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Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:52 pm |
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Kev Spence
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Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:59 pm Posts: 10902 Location: Loughborough, Leics, central UK
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Jeff
Fab place to visit if you like your exotic greenery and more or less all year round too.
Plenty more pics left on the hard drive........keep a look out.
Hope your C. indivisa picks up BTW
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Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:11 pm |
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Angela
Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:40 pm Posts: 11 Location: South Yorkshire, England
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Thanks Kev for the photos!
We last visited Madeira in 1996 and Its brought back a lot of memories looking at them.
The photo below the one with the crossroads where you nearly crashed, can you tell me where it was taken? It looks familar, but I just can't place it!
Angela
Last edited by Angela on Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:34 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:13 pm |
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Kev Spence
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Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:59 pm Posts: 10902 Location: Loughborough, Leics, central UK
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Angela
Glad you like them it makes it worth the effort posting them...
The place in question is probably Ribeiro Bravo very pretty indeed.
1996 get yourself over there again as I should imagine the road structure is much better now thay have tunnels for miles and miles under the mountains very impressive building work...........were there many tunnels way back then.
The picture of myself in front of the Phoenix dactylifera is at Calheta where there are 2 yellow sand beaches now...fabulous!! I assume they were not there then?
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Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:31 pm |
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Angela
Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:40 pm Posts: 11 Location: South Yorkshire, England
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Thanks Kev, we visited Ribeiro Bravo, its changed now though.
When we was there the road work was in progress. We stayed in a hotel in Funchal what was near where the entrance to a tunnel was going to be. We was woke up every morning by loud drilling. I wonder if the hotel is still there, was called the Monte Carlo and was a former school.
We walked from Pico Areiro to Pico Ruivo and back, that path has painful memories! The last bit of the walk back the clouds had come down and it was amazing. Could hardly walk the next day though!
Angela
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Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:41 pm |
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Libby
Joined: Thu Nov 01, 2007 5:27 pm Posts: 6 Location: Wiltshire, England
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Well that does it! We where due to go here for our honeymoon 20+ years ago but as hubbies family had come over from South Africa we never had one. These pics have made my mind up and we will definately be going as soon as I can raise the cash!
Thank you so much for sharing them with us.
Are you able to bring plants back?
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Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:51 am |
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RickMadeira
Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:10 am Posts: 439 Location: Madeira Island
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Very nice Kev to see you still popularizing good ol' Madeira!" with your great photos You may eventually get an award from the Tourist office!...must say I've noticed more tourists around since you started posting piccy's!
The leafy close up is the Tipuana tipu tree (mayos) from Northern Argentina which bears sandy yellow flowers in May.
Curiously this tree is a natural host for Tillandsia aeranthos in its native land and probably explains the presence of this, the only known domesticated Tillandsia in Madeira.
RickMadeira
Tillandsia aeranthos
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Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:19 am |
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