Hi Steve

Glad you enjoyed Madeira.

I know most of the places you mentioned.

We ate in Camara de lobos Several times. We sampled Espada - fried fish with banana - lovely. We also enjoyed their Espatada which is Beef wrapped in banana leaves served on huge metal skewers.
We saw the Espada fish in the fish market - ugly huge black fish that looks as though it was wearing a black shiny raincoat.

We stayed in the Eden Mar hotel quite close to the Lido.

We did several of the Levada walks and enjoyed them thoroughly.

On one of these purely by chance we happened on the Madeira Football Ground. They were holding a sports day for the schools. We were invited to watch and they gave us a bottle of wine. On the outside of the pitch several of the Madeira football team were training. We took several pictures of the day.
Some years later we were going through the pictures with our son and family. My wife had taken a shot of three young footballers running.
Our son jumped up and shouted " that is Ronaldo". At that time he was playing for Manchester United.

Your post gives us both lovely memories. Thanks

Regards.

Mike