2001. Saga Rose. The sea was so rough when we arrived at Madeira that our trip was cancelled and we couldn't get ashore. We lost an anchor and were drifting on one anchor for the day. It was New Year's eve and Madeira has a fabulous firework display which we watched from the deck. Still, a great time was had by all. This was our last scheduled stop so it was homeward bound but, due to the force 11 we encountered, a lady broke her collar bone and we had to divert to Lisbon. The sea was too rough for us to land so the lady had to be airlifted to hospital by Helicopter. The end of an eventful holiday!

2006. Arcadia. Managed to get ashore this time! Smashing. Did the open top Bus Tour, caught the cable car up and came down in a toboggan. If you do this trip do NOT walk back to Town. They did warn us, it's about 5 kilometres down a very steep decline.

Doing our impersonation of newts on New Year's Eve