Day 7 April 25 Porto city tour Freedom Day (DIA DA LIBERDADE)
Day 13 May 1 - Madeira DIA DO TRABALHADOR
May 2 2025 - Madeira - Lisbon Portugal
After breakfast, you will be transferred from the hotel to the airport for your flight to Lisbon.
Flight is at 7:20 PM
Dep:Funchal May 02, 2025 - Lisbon May 02, 2025
NI1692 FNC | May 02 19:20 - LIS | May 02 21:00 ECONOMY
Dur.:1h 40mm
Arrival is 9 PM
Arriving at the airport of Lisbon, you will be transferred from the airport to your hotel. The rest of the day is at
your own pace. (Breakfast)
1 night in Lisbon at the Marques de Pombal 4* in a standard room
Av. da Liberdade 243, 1250-143 Lisboa, Portugal Phone: +351 21 319 7900
Last look at the beach from our room.
Our airport pickup is not until 4:30 PM so after breakfast we headed back to Camara de Lobos.
Once again this driver took us into the middle of nowhere, but he finally understood we wanted to fishing village. Note to self - give a hotel address in town.
Once again this driver took us into the middle of nowhere, but he finally understood we wanted to fishing village. Note to self - give a hotel address in town.
Winston, again, outside the Churchill Bay Pestana.
This is a gorgeous little town, if I came back for a few days, I would base myself here instead of the Orca. There is a lot to see and do walking around this town, with plenty of places to eat in the evening. Yes, it would cost a little more to Uber to Funchel but there is also a bus available.
We decide to share a cheese plate and it is huge!
No Ubers available so we cab back to the hotel 8€. We retrieve our luggage and wait (along with the French couple FC) in the lobby for our 4 PM airport ride which arrived at 3:45 for the 25 minute ride.
We were first in line for check-in when the gates opened. We had to pay 50€ this time, for John's suitcase.
The French couple (FC) did self check-in so were anxious to know if we had a departure gate on our passes, no. They followed us to the gates and through security. John spoke to them in French, they were from Rouyn-Noranda QC.
Rouyn-Noranda is located on the western shore of Lake Osisko, 315 miles (507 km) northwest of Montreal city. Rouyn and its twin city, Noranda, originated in the 1920s when gold and copper ores were first exploited in the area. Rouyn was named after the sieur de Rouyn, a hero of the Battle of Sainte-Foy (1760), and became the administrative, commercial, and industrial centre for the whole mining region of western Quebec. Noranda, noted for its large copper smelter, amalgamated with Rouyn in 1986.
Then to the bar to wait for our 7:35 departure. I was chatting with one of my Montreal cousin's husband as they are in Europe too (Dublin - Faro - Lisbon) and today and tomorrow morning are the only time we could meet up. Our flight was delayed so we settled on 11 tomorrow morning.
Time to say goodbye to Madeira.
It was a bigger plane than on the way over, 3 seats aside, but luckily it wasn't full so John was able to take the aisle seat and we had to exit row. We finally landed and got our luggage by 9:30. As we exited the FC were waiting with our driver, who pointed at John with a big smile, he was our driver when we arrived in Lisbon 2 weeks ago!! We were going to the Pombal Hotel, where most of our group had stayed. The FC said they were going to Marques, where we stayed previously, it is only around the corner.
The driver took our baggage into the lobby and we checked in. FC suddenly appeared, it seems they misread the name of their hotel. They were leaving at 4 AM to fly home.
That is why I like to book my own flights!
Nice room, no water provided. But it overlooked the busy street so too noisy to leave the window open.
Nice hotel in Madeira and nice room in Lisbon. What a coincidence with the taxi driver :)
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