The isle of wine and whales
There are certain places in Europe that end up staying on my list, unvisited, for longer than I'd like. It's usually just due to a lack of convenient or reasonably priced flights. Current examples include Corsica, Rhodes, and Luxembourg. One example that remained on the list for a long time was the Portuguese island of Madeira, and I was very excited to finally go and tick it off on my latest family holiday! Generally we go on two family holidays a year; one longer (usually summery) break, and one shorter city break. We're all pretty much over doing any kind of sunbathing, resort-style holidays as the longer break though, so Madeira posed the perfect choice for our longer trip of 2025. We still stuck to 4 nights rather than a full week, but the island offered an old town, dramatic views, the chance for lots of walking, island excursions, whale watching boat trips and plenty more. A far cry from the typical sunbathing holiday, but still with pretty consistently gorgeous weat...