Here’s Blog from the Edge number 8 from Alison, a big one, as her daughter, son-in-law and two grand daughters visit us for the first time in Ribeira Brava.

Family Visit

A perfect week!

We have packed a lot into the last 7 days and I hope they all go back home relaxed, tanned and wanting to come back for more. (We’ve been assured on that count - probably October.) Today is our last day together - for now.

The weather has been perfect every day, and there’s been plenty of time in the sea for the girls: Libby’s learned to swim 😃. We drank Poncha and met the locals and ate ‘pastel de nata’ together.

To chill, we went into Ribeira Brava to the bars and restaurants and the sea front, and saw the sun go down. We bbq’d at home and danced on the terrace at midnight. We took the cable car up to Monte and tobaggoned down, went out to sea to look for dolphins, travelled around the western part of the island to see spectacular scenery and villages and swam in the pools at Porto Moniz (care of neighbour Paulo and his taxi).  

This, their final day, has seen us all enjoy a last swim and lunch. There’ll be a sad goodbye, but we’ll all be left with very happy, sunny memories of our time together this summer - our first at home in Madeira.