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Ponta do Castelo and Ponta do São Lourenço seen from the plane
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Santa Cruz, the plane is about to land
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Aeroporto da Madeira
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Baile dos Canhas (Dance of Canhas) (maybe?) to welcome all the passengers at the airport
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Posing with Ronaldo
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Posing with Ronaldo
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First sunset in Calheta
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Trend at this hotel: take a lot of pictures of oneself
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Trend continued: Keep taking a picture of oneself because your friend didn't get the right angle
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Saccharum Savoy
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Morning meditation on the breakwater
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Holiday time, yesssss
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Puzzle-piece shaped breakwater, the coast towards Ponta do Sol
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Crab. What is not shown: epic crab leap to the next rock.
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Towards the pool from the rooftop restaurant-bar.
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Close as I could get to have the pool border meet the ocean's horizon
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Length of Time one can spend contemplating the view before having to move in order to not have one's extremities go numb from cold?
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Solution: Move up and down the wall
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The high-demand seats right by the pool's edge require an early morning start to sunbathing
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Palm Tree. There were lots, all shapes and sizes. Like people.
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The official Madeirian flower: Bird of Paradise / Strelitzia reginae
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It seems many plants which are small on other continents are tree-size in Madeira due to the climate. Could this be a cotton tree?
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I took a lot of flower photos. Deal with it.
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Banco-Banker
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Bananas and tomatoes if you are to believe the signs. Madeira has a lot of sub-tropical fruits and vegetables we Northerners have never seen before.
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Flowers at the Mercado dos Lavradores (market of the labourers)
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Dried fish at the Mercado dos Lavradores
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Tuna and Black Scabbard or Espada Preta fish at the Mercado dos Lavradores
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More fruit at the Mercado dos Lavradores
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So many chilies at the Mercado dos Lavradores
