Today we docked at Funchal, Madeira. We came here earlier in the year and we were surprised how nice a place it was - very colourful with lots of flowers and quite a lot of green spaces and it's pretty because all the houses are white with red roof very Portuguese. So having already checked out rhe town, we decided to be a bit more adventurous and after a lot of faffing which I won't bore you with - we finally rented a car for the day and took off up the hill - the seriously big hill - the very windy, tiny, narrow, hairpin, bendy road... scarily exhilarating. We reached the very highest point of the island which is called Pico do Areeiro, it's 1818m or something like that, and done, obviously very easily in the car🤣. About halfway up we drove through the cloud base and then at the top we were just looking across this white fluffy cotton wool skyline with the most amazing volcanic crags completely surrounding the high point. Huge so...