Discover the breathtaking islands of the Madeira Archipelago for your next adventure

With mainland Portugal currently off-limits, it’s an opportunity to visit not-so-sleepy Madeira and its lesser-known little sister, Porto Santo. I am a woman on the edge – literally. I’m sitting in something resembling an oversized breadbasket, poised at the top of what looks like the tarmac version of the Cresta Run. Downhill lies 2km of steep, twisting road, in places polished to an obsidian shine, testament to the decades over which the activity I’m about to experience has occurred. I’m in the hilltop district of Monte, which looms 1,840ft above Funchal, the capital of Madeira. This lush little island, which sits 600 miles southwest of mainland Portugal, and west of the top of Africa, was first claimed by Portuguese sailors in the fifteenth century. Four hundred years later, wealthy residents…….

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From Metro UK