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The answers we give guests over coffee, written down: which levada to walk first, what to do when the cloud sits on the mountains, where the best food in Funchal actually is. Written by people who live here and checked every season — if something closes, floods or changes price, we fix the page.

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Sea cliffs and rock stacks at Ponta de São Lourenço

Things to Do

The Best Things to Do in Madeira

The fifteen experiences we'd put on a first trip, in the order that makes sense once you understand the island's weather.

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New places we've walked and rated, seasonal timings, and the guides we've just rewritten. A few times a year, never more.