With a sub-tropical climate in October, hikes, water sports and paragliding, Madeira had everything we’d wanted for our honeymoon ☀️🤵👰
As I’m jerked by the tug and tighten of the harness straps around my shoulders, a voice shouts into the back of my helmet, “When I say run, run!” Above are blue skies and ahead is a cliff-edge and an 1,000-feet fall.
When my husband, Colm, and I first told our friends and family where we’d booked for our our 10-day, early-October honeymoon, there were generally three responses: “Where is that again?”; “Oh, my [insert older relative] loves it there”; or, “Have you seen the YouTube videos of flights landing at that airport?”The archipelago of Madeira, which includes its main island,Porto Santo and the uninhabited Desertas Islands, has a population of around a quarter of a million.
This focus on Madeira has been followed by an uptick in visitor numbers, from 1.3 million in January–October 2019 to 1.7 million in January–October 2022, while many tourist hotspots are building back up to their pre-Covid tourist figures., which overlooks the sea, appeals to millennials and Gen Z, for example. It has a dedicated app and a co-working space for digital nomads. Then there’s the Digital Nomad Village, which also opened in 2021.
We arrived in Madeira late at night wrecked from our wedding whirlwind. Staff at the Pestana Royal hotel greeted us with a free upgrade and platter of tapas. After a few restful days of drinking mojitos poolside and munching on pastel de nata, we moved to a less spendy hotel, where we were gifted with a bowl of fruit and a bottle of fizz.
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