The Cardiff Cwtch - Welsh Food, Fashion and LifestyleI just got back from a short but sweet little trip to the New Forest. I haven’t been down there since I was a kid and always had this memory of it being this sprawling, Snow White forest, but actually, turns out that it’s not that big at all. You can easily whizz around it by car in an […]
On one of our last days in Madeira, we decided to drive to the eastern tip of the island. Ponta de São Lourençao is a craggy peninsula jutting out into the Atlantic, flanked by islets and white water. It’s a strange place; when you set out from the car park and walk between huge, red […]
Let’s brighten up the grey skies and January drizzle with a throwback to the clifftops, banana trees and pastel houses of Madeira, shall we? Or more specifically, Câmara de Lobos. Just around the corner from the capital, Funchal, Câmara de Lobos is a pretty little town tucked away in a horse-shoe shaped harbour with colourful houses, […]
When we told people we were planning on renting a car for the final week of our trip to the island of Madeira, we got a lot of ‘Ooh, be careful’s and even one ‘Are you effing crazy?!’ We shrugged off all those horror stories about terrifying roads and laughed off the warnings about suicidal […]
I’m going to throw an idea out there that’s going to sound a little strange. Madeira is like a sub-tropical Iceland. Okay, I can tell you’re pulling a face right now and I know it’s weird, but try and stick with me on this one. When Sunny and I booked our trip to Madeira and […]
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