torek, 8. februar 2011
Madeira Fireworks 2010 & 2011 Guinness World Record?Lisbon: come in your underwear and get a free outfit!
Portugal & Madeira news from Paul Abbiati:
Madeira Fireworks 2010 & 2011 Guinness World Record?
thanks to Anneke for the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx2RvEvRWtE
Lisbon: come in your underwear and get a free outfit!
Lisbon Desigual Dolce Vita, 28 December, 2010, 9.00 am Centro Comercial
Dolce Vita Tejo.
The first 100 people who arrived at the shop in their underwear were offered a a ‘Desigual’ outfit for free!
Your next chance all readers whether “ever so nice” or not is Madrid, 2nd January 2011
How to get a Desigual outfit for free!
-Get up early, to be among the first 100, and get to the Desigual store (*).
-Get undressed, down to your underwear, and in you go!
-Doors open at 9.00 am
-Look around, try it on, check yourself out and choose a Desigual outfit (one top and one bottom)!
-Go to the checkout and pay nothing! We will take the alarms out of the items you choose.
(*) You must be of legal age. You must provide proof of age (ID card, passport, etc.)
Desigual:
http://wintersales.desigual.com/?lang=en
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sobota, 5. februar 2011
Roads closed; Orange weather alert; Presidential election results: Madeira & Portugal;Portuguese holidays offer best value; TAP ends Johannesburg route
Rua da Serra de Água entre o Arco e a Vila da Calheta está encerrada.
E.R. 202, entre o Poiso e o Pico do Areeiro foi encerrada ao tráfego devido a queda de neve nas zonas altas
1a Secçao
E.R. 107 – Entre o Curral das Freiras e o Cumeal
E.R. 201 – Caminho dos Pretos
2a Secçao
E.R. 102 – Entre o Porto da Cruz e o Sítio do Massapez
E.R. 103 – Entre o Lombo de Cima e o Sítio do Cabouco
E.R. 212 – Ribeira de Machico
3a Secçao
E.R. 101 – Próximo a Igreja da Boaventura
E.R. 101 – Santa do Porto Moniz
E.R. 228 – Rosário – Boca da Encumeada
E.R. 232 – Lombo do Urzal
E.R. 101 – Sítio da Faja do Penedo – entre a Boaventura e o túnel do Arco de S. Jorge
4a Secçao
E.R. 105 – Entre a boca da Encumeada e os Estanquinhos
E.R. 222 – Sítio das Faias – entre o Arco da Calheta e a Estrela da Calheta
Informaçao da responsabilidade RAMEDM – Estradas da Madeira,S.A.
VIAEXPRESSO:
Túnel da Banda d’Além – Entre a Madalena e o Arco da Calheta – ENCERRADO
Informaçao da responsabilidade da ViaExpresso
AVISO:
Encerramento temporário do Ramo de saída da Faixa Norte do Nó 5 da VR1 (Ponte dos Frades)
A VIALITORAL – Concessoes Rodoviárias da Madeira S.A, informa o encerramento temporário do Ramo de saída da Faixa Norte do Nó 5 da VR1 (Ponte dos Frades) devido a construçao da Via Rápida Câmara de Lobos / Estreito de Câmara de Lobos.
http://www.procivmadeira.pt/images/stories/encerramento_vialitoral.pdf
Informaçao da responsabilidade da Vialitoral – Concessoes Rodoviárias da Madeira S.A
Orange weather alert issued Tuesday morning 25th January. To keep up-to-date with the weather watch this site: www.meteo.pt
Portuguese Presidential election results – front pages of the Madeira newspapers below:
Portugal holidays offer best value: UK Post Office money survey:
UK Press Association:
“Traditional holiday hotspots such as Spain and Portugal are becoming more affordable for Britons, a Post Office money survey shows.
Prices have fallen 49% in Portugal over the last 12 months, making the country the cheapest for typical holiday spending items in a 10-nation list.
Typical holiday spending items Including a three-course meal, suncream and drinks:
L32.84 in Portugal
L36.68 in Spain
Of the 10 countries surveyed, the most expensive for the items was Malaysia at L47.68.”
Eating out in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal – Largo das Fontes…image below:
Link:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hTe7BBzXt4qSJDMcSt3ZC01eyu-Q?docId=N0307691295762834617A
TAP ends Johannesburg route
Times Live:
“TAP PORTUGAL will cease flights on the Lisbon-Johannesburg route from June 1, the airline said this week.
The carrier plans to focus on its direct route between Maputo and Lisbon. Travellers wishing to fly from Johannesburg will be accommodated on short-haul flights on Mozambican carrier LAM and South African Airways.”
“It’s a quiet end to a 45 years of history.”
“TAP began commercial operations on September 19, 1946, flying Douglas DC-3 Dakotas between Lisbon and Madrid
The “Imperial Line”
The next major route to open was the “Imperial Line” from Lisbon to Luanda in Angola and Lourenco Marques (now Maputo) in Mozambique, Portugal’s biggest colonies. The Imperial Line started out with the same plodding and unbreakable DC-3s that had had revolutionised air travel in the 1930s – but…
flights involved 12 overnight stops as the aircraft rumbled their way slowly down Africa.
TAP Airbus A340-312 CS-TOD taxiing at Johannesburg’s O.R. Tambo International AirporT, 2005
Flights to Johannesburg began in the mid-60s, first using Lockheed Constellation piston-engined aircraft and then Boeing 707s, the Jet Age airliner that did for modern air travel what the DC-3 had done for commercial aviation in 1935.”
Madeira event, travel & sport news!; Taça de Portugal; ‘Anona’ Custard Apple Festival;André Villas-Boas; Madeira Botanical art work in London exhibition; Rockfall at Calheta marina
Portugal & Madeira news from Paul Abbiati:
More events news:
The “XX Exposiçao Regional da Anona” (Anona Fruit Festival) returns to Faial – 12-13 February. The Press Conference covering the Programme will be on the 8th
Madeira Botanical art work in London exhibition
An anona painted by the artict Angie Martinussen a follower of this blog and contributor who resides in Madeira. This work and others of the artist will be displayed at the Society of Botanical Artists Annual London Open Exhibition in London between Friday 8 April and Sunday 17 April 2011.
Link: http://www.soc-botanical-artists.org/exhibitions_2011.php
Rockfall at Calheta Marina
Rockfall at Calheta Marina, yesterday Thursday causes some serious damage
Via Expresso will reopen between Madalena do Mar and Arco da Calheta after landslide this weekend
Taca de Portugal:Benfica beats Porto 2-0 – Portuguese Football Cup
Reuters:
“Portugal left back Coentrao took advantage of a mix-up between keeper Helton and centre back Maicon to toe-poke in the first in the sixth minute.
Spanish midfielder Garcia scored the Portuguese champions’ second 20 minutes later from long-distance after a poor clearance by midfielder Fernando.
Porto, unbeaten in the Portuguese Premier League and eight points ahead of Benfica, were a shadow of the team that had thrashed their Lisbon rivals 5-0 on their last visit in November and failed to pose any consistent danger. They missed their prolific Colombian striker Radamel Falcao, who was out injured, and could not break down a well-organised Benfica defence even after Coentrao was dismissed for a second booking on 59 minutes.”
The second leg will be played in Lisbon on April 19.
Link: http://football.uk.reuters.com/leagues/european/news/2011/02/02/LDE7112M3.php
Porto football manager: André Vllas-Boas
“Luís André de Pina Cabral de Villas-Boas (born 17 October 1977 in Porto) is a Portuguese football manager currently managing FC Porto.
He is regarded as unique in the sense that he has no football playing experience, became a coach of a major club with very little head coaching experience, and achieved this role at a very young age.
He is currently the youngest football manager in the Portuguese league.”
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Porto
“When Jesualdo Ferreira left F.C. Porto, his name was also linked with the job at Estádio do Dragao, and Villas-Boas was finally announced as their new manager on 2 June 2010, having been presented on 4 June.[5] On 7 August 2010, he won his first trophy when Porto beat Benfica 2–0 in the Portuguese Supercup.”
The most matches in Portugal across all competitions unbeaten
“On 11 December 2010, Villas-Boas set the club record for the most matches across all competitions unbeaten, a record previously held by José Mourinho at 33 matches.”
World class windsurfers off Paul do Mar; Madeira: European Windsurfing Championships 2012; Snowfall on Madeira’s serras
World class windsurfers off Paul do Mar
Madeiran Olympic Windsurfer: Joao Rodrigues has been training in Madeira surfing off Paul do Mar and Funchal
Joao Rodrigues currently ranked 14th in the world by the ISAF:
link: http://www.sailing.org/15_9490.php?includeref=ranking3760&rankdiscipline=7&ranktype=2&rankclass=82&rankdate=latest
“Joao Filipe Gaspar Rodrigues, better known as Joao Rodrigues, (born November 2, 1971) is a Portuguese windsurfer from Funchal, Madeira. He started sailing at nine years-old and racing competitively at the age of eleven.
In 1995, he won his first major title at the Mistral World Championships, in Port Elizabeth, South Africa; this year, he also graduated from a five-year course in engineering. In the following two years, Rodrigues won the European Championships in the Mistral class. In May 2008, he added a third European title to his record, this time in the Neil Pryde RS:X class.
He has participated in every Summer Olympic Games since the 1992 Summer Olympics and has already qualified for what will be his fifth consecutive Olympiad.
Joao Rodrigues also won Silver in the masters fleet at the 2009 IWA Junior, Youth and Masters World championships which took place at Weymouth and Portland sailing academy which is the venue for the windsurfing and sailing at the 2012 olympic games.”
Source: Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_Rodrigues_(sailor)
Madeira: European Windsurfing Championships 2012
From 7 March some of the best Olympic windsurfers will be in Madeira training for 3 weeks in preparation for the European Championships organised by Clube Naval do Funchal.
Besides Madeiran Joao Rodrigues other Olympic windsurfers Blanca Manchon Spanish World Champion…
the German Moana Delle, the Frenchman Eugene Ricard and Fin Tulli Petaja are expected to come to the Region.
Snowfall on Madeira’s serras in January
Photo gallery from Diario Newspaper:
http://www.dnoticias.pt/multimedia/fotoreportagem/247165-queda-de-neve-nas-serras-da-madeira#
Art Deco exhibition continues in Madeira until February; Art Deco in Porto; Yellow weather alert
Portugal & Madeira news from Paul Abbiati:
Art Deco in Madeira
‘Martin everso’ prompted me to post this again today from his comments about this exhibition . Thanks Martin.
The Art Deco exhibition at Casa das Mudas above Calheta Marina has more than 300 pieces of furniture, paintings, statues, ceramics, glass and silverware and other decorative objects from some of the most famous Art Deco decorators like Lalique, Brandt, Perzel, Leleu, Porteneuve and Ruhlmann.
Ruhlmann was the creator of the dining room in the Casa de Serralves in Porto, one of the finest examples of Art Deco architecture in Portugal.“Casa de Serralves is a house and museum located in Parque de Serralves in Porto, Portugal.
Owned by the Serralves Foundation, the house was built by the second Conde de Prado, Carlos Alberto Cabral and designed by the architect José Marques da Silva. It is a unique example of Streamline Moderne architecture in Portugal.
Completed in 1940, Casa de Serralves welcomed presentations made by the Foundation between 1989 and 1999. In 1996, Casa de Serralves was classified as a building of public interest due to its architectural interest. Today the house is part of the the Museu Serralves.”
Source: Wikipedia
link to Casa Das Mudas, Art Centre Madeira site:Yellow weather warning for rain issued for Madeira region by Institute of Meteorology (IOM):http://www.meteo.pt/pt/index.html
Madeira event, travel & sport news!; Taça de Portugal; ‘Anona’ Custard Apple Festival;André Villas-Boas; Madeira Botanical art work in London exhibition; Rockfall at Calheta marina
Portugal & Madeira news from Paul Abbiati:
More events news:
The “XX Exposiçao Regional da Anona” (Anona Fruit Festival) returns to Faial – 12-13 February. The Press Conference covering the Programme will be on the 8th
Madeira Botanical art work in London exhibition
An anona painted by the artict Angie Martinussen a follower of this blog and contributor who resides in Madeira. This work and others of the artist will be displayed at the Society of Botanical Artists Annual London Open Exhibition in London between Friday 8 April and Sunday 17 April 2011.
Link: http://www.soc-botanical-artists.org/exhibitions_2011.php
Rockfall at Calheta Marina
Rockfall at Calheta Marina, yesterday Thursday causes some serious damage
Via Expresso will reopen between Madalena do Mar and Arco da Calheta after landslide this weekend
Taca de Portugal:Benfica beats Porto 2-0 – Portuguese Football Cup
Reuters:
“Portugal left back Coentrao took advantage of a mix-up between keeper Helton and centre back Maicon to toe-poke in the first in the sixth minute.
Spanish midfielder Garcia scored the Portuguese champions’ second 20 minutes later from long-distance after a poor clearance by midfielder Fernando.
Porto, unbeaten in the Portuguese Premier League and eight points ahead of Benfica, were a shadow of the team that had thrashed their Lisbon rivals 5-0 on their last visit in November and failed to pose any consistent danger. They missed their prolific Colombian striker Radamel Falcao, who was out injured, and could not break down a well-organised Benfica defence even after Coentrao was dismissed for a second booking on 59 minutes.”
The second leg will be played in Lisbon on April 19.
Link: http://football.uk.reuters.com/leagues/european/news/2011/02/02/LDE7112M3.php
Porto football manager: André Vllas-Boas
“Luís André de Pina Cabral de Villas-Boas (born 17 October 1977 in Porto) is a Portuguese football manager currently managing FC Porto.
He is regarded as unique in the sense that he has no football playing experience, became a coach of a major club with very little head coaching experience, and achieved this role at a very young age.
He is currently the youngest football manager in the Portuguese league.”
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Porto
“When Jesualdo Ferreira left F.C. Porto, his name was also linked with the job at Estádio do Dragao, and Villas-Boas was finally announced as their new manager on 2 June 2010, having been presented on 4 June.[5] On 7 August 2010, he won his first trophy when Porto beat Benfica 2–0 in the Portuguese Supercup.”
The most matches in Portugal across all competitions unbeaten
“On 11 December 2010, Villas-Boas set the club record for the most matches across all competitions unbeaten, a record previously held by José Mourinho at 33 matches.”