| We spent 10 days in the Madeira Archipelago, 3 on Porto Santo and 7 on Madeira. In Madeira we stayed at the Quinta do Lorde Marina where we enjoyed watching French cruisers prepare their boats for the �Rallye des Iles du Soleil�, a six month French rally starting from the marina. While in Madeira we rented a car to explore the island, to visit Funchal (the capital), and to take a levada walk. In the 16th century, the Portuguese started building levadas, ingenious irrigation channels, to bring water from the high mountain springs to the slopes and valleys. Today, there were around 1400 miles of levadas providing a vast network of walking paths. |
