Bus Tour - Porto Santo
Ile Jeudi
Bob and Lin Griffiths
Mon 30 Jul 2012 14:10
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Monday 30 July
The island tour starts each day at 2.15 pm from
town so we cycled in to have lunch beforehand. There are signposts down a
side street and along an alley to a place called La Siesta. It's right on
the beach and not easy to stumble across. We decided this would do for
lunch which turned out to be superb and was served by a lovely,
friendly lady. We enjoyed it so much we booked a table for dinner as
we hope to leave for Madeira tomorrow.
La Siesta:-
  The tour was on an open top
bus:-
 We didn't expect there was much to see on this
small barren island and we were not disappointed! The main feature of the
tour seemed to be to take you to viewpoints around the island and there was
little to be seen in between. It was still good to do though.
View from the top with the start of the airport
runway:-
 Porto Santo built an airport before Madeira and
visitors used to arrive here and transfer to Madeira by
Ferry. Madeira doesn't have any sandy beaches and Maderians come over
to Porto Santo for the weeked to enjoy the 3.5 miles long
beach:-
 A view of the small 'Marina' which sits within the
main harbour. Ile Jeudi lies left to right along the long reception
pontoon:-
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