Madeira
Insider Guide to Porto Santo. Madeira’s little sister is a sleeping beauty.
Andy Mossack discovers glorious beaches and a welcoming heart in this guide to Porto Santo.
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Cruising Iona’s best restaurants
Andy Mossack spends two weeks eating aboard Iona to bring you his guide to cruising Iona’s best restaurants.
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Iona Cruise around Portugal and Spain
Andy Mossack boards a P&O Cruises Iona Cruise around Portugal and Spain with the added bonus of an onboard Gary Barlow concert.
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Insider guide to Madeira’s restaurants. Delve into delicious dishes.
Terry Marsh is a veteran of Madeira having spent over fifteen years writing about the island. Here, he gives us an insider guide to his favourite restaurants and foods you can find on Madeira.
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Quintinha Sao Joao
In Portuguese ‘quinta’, originally meant a farm and house let out at a rent of one-fifth of its produce, from Latin quintus, ‘one fifth. Today, it has an altogether different meaning, and, in the case of Madeira, refers to former colonial manor houses that have been converted to luxury hotels enclosed within their own grounds. Logically, then, a quintinha, is a small quinta, and such is the case with the Quintinha Sao Joao on the hillside above Funchal, overlooking the city at around 70 metres above sea level
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Il Gallo d’Oro. Funchal
A number of Madeiran restaurants are striving to achieve that elusive, and well-earned, Michelin star. So far, only one has reached those culinary heights, Il Gallo d’Oro restaurant, in the Cliff Bay hotel, Funchal awarded in 2009.
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