Funchal; Saturday, 09 April, 2016

A painless journey through the airport and onto the early morning flight to Madeira. We touched down around 15 minutes early and had the ridiculous process of catching a bus from the steps to the building less than 45 yards away, but because it was across a service road we weren’t trusted to walk it ourselves.

Luggage came round surprisingly quickly, which added to the early arrival meant I ended up waiting almost 30 minutes for the next aerobus into town.

After checking into the hotel I headed out for a wander, heading to the harbour area where I picked up one of the hop-on-hop-off tour buses to take in the key sights of the city. The tour was quite convoluted as it took in all of the city and then headed out to Câmera de Lobos. It was a pleasant afternoon so I also took the opportunity to top-up my tan.

The bus arrived back in town and immediately set off again as the last bus of the night, so I stayed on to take in the views from the opposite side of the bus, arriving back into town just before 7pm. I had a bit of a wander around the city centre before heading back down to the harbour as I’d noticed there were a large number of restaurants down there.

Dinner completed I walked back to the hotel along the sea front.