Our last port of call was the Island of Madera, which is part of Portugal. Went ashore today with Luis and Yoshiko. We took the cable car up the mountain where we had a beautiful panoramic view of the city below. Then we made a visit to a lovely church up there. The weather looked iffey-- lots of rain clouds, so we returned to the city below wandered around for a couple of hours, enjoying the ambience. Many of the streets and sidewalks here are made with mosaics. It is really lovely and quaint.
We didn’t get rained on down in the city, but another person told me that up above it poured.
We are on the Atlantic ocean now, and the captain announced that for the next day or so, we are passing through a rough area. After that he says it will be smooth sailing. I didn’t feel too badly when it started, but decided to take a tablet against sea sickness, just in case. A lot of passengers are feeling ill, including Paul, my favourite dance host. I have my own wrist bands which help prevent this as well as the old set I’ve had for years, so I loaned those to him. Hopefully it helps. There won’t be any dancing tonight anyhow – it is so rough that the ship is really a-rocking and a-rolling. I’ll spend the evening in my cabin getting caught up with my blog and some other computer stuff I’m working on. I may even get some reading done.
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