This is the last day of the year. In Funchal we have the famous fireworks at midnight. Because that the city and all island is full with tourists who came to see the beautifull fireworks in the the Funchal amphiteater. They came in airplanes and in cruise ships, like you can see in this photos. The last one show two ships positioned in one of the points where the fireworks will go to the sky. There are six cruise ships (Queen Victoria, Azura, AIDAsol, AIDAbella, Thomson Majesty and Boudicca) today in Funchal. All of them and more two, the Lobo Marinho ferry and the Ponta de São Louirenço tug, will do a horn concert, the "Madeira new year ships horns concert", at 19.15 hours. Will be a unic moment in Madeira island and in all world. I will try to record and tomorrow I show. One more words just to say that we whait two more cruise ships: Saga Saphire and MSC Divina.

Today is christmas day. I put this photo beacause I find it and because it's different. I take this photo in 90's in Eurosun cruise ship window. It's the way that people o work on board, far from they family, can celebrate these days to stay at home with our family.
So, I dedicat this photo to all who work on board.

Illusion. Yes, I wrote in this post title that's a long cat. But isn't. In reality there are my two cats: Pintas (behind)and Charlie.

Today it's a restaurant, but the owners said that's an ex-Bealtes yacht. This days, the service is not like when they open it the Vagrant restaurant. It's smaller and in future maybe will close to creat a new offer in all area.

The Fábrica do Torreão was a sugar cane factory, the biggest in Madeira Island. But the prodution decreased and all stop.
And what could be an museum to preserve the history the autorities decide to destroy all the buildind to create a public garden where we only can see the old cheimney.

Two ships in Funchal harbour. On it's stop in Funchal port, and another is arriving "between" the Costa Cruises ship smoke.