Sorry about the upside-down market picture above! What I wanted to show about Madeira was how well everything here grows. The Farmer's Market sold every fruit and vegetable imaginable plus lots of beautiful flowers (some varieties I had not seen before). This market was flourishing in the middle of November!
Madeira is an island owned by Portugal. This is the last place we visited before setting sail across the Atlantic Ocean for home. It is one of our favorite places. The temperature during the entire year does not vary more than 10 degrees, and that includes day and night temperatures. People do not have furnaces for heating or air conditioners for cooling their homes. The temperature when we were in Madeira was around 70 degrees.
We strolled through the Botanical Gardens of Madeira that are beautifully laid out across terraces that climb from 600 to 900 feet in elevation. The island of Madeira almost had a quality of a storybook land. We decided that this would be a great place to live if you didn't mind living on an island and you didn't mind being very far away from family members. We mind both, so it wouldn't work for us!
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Love the flowers & the market! Especially the bird of paradise flowers....they remind me of Houston. Thanks for sharing your adventures!
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