Day One
Our flight from Amsterdam to Funchal left at 06:25 in the morning, which means we had to get at the airport at a time no public transportation was running.
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We booked a hotel next to the airport so we could at least sleep a bit. We left for the airport at 04:00 in the morning and with exceptionally fast security we were waiting at the gate about an hour later.
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The flight took about four hours and when we landed we headed to the rental car pickup point to get our "Renault Megane or equal", this turned out to be a Jeep, but not before getting a delicious egg tart.
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From the airport we drove to Funchal, to the "old town" where we wandered around for a place to get lunch.
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After lunch we headed to the cable car to get us up to "Monte Palace Madeira"
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Monte Palace is a botanical garden at the top of the cable car, it's huge and consists of many little trails with interesting sculptures, buildings and vistas.
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It doesn't really matter where you look, there's always something interesting to see and everything is covered with beautiful flowers and plants.
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With over 10.000 steps in the pocket, and little sleep for the past 24 hours, we headed back down the mountain to get to our hotel.
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At the hotel we got a quick dinner and tried to watch "Andor", a Star-Wars themed series, but both fell asleep around 22:00 in the evening for some well-deserved rest.