Press kit
Madeira Blog began in February 2006 as Blog.Thoughts.Madeira, the first English-language blog about the island. Here are images you can use, the key facts and the forecasts we checked for our 20th anniversary.
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Facts
- Founded
- February 2006, as Blog.Thoughts.Madeira
- Archive
- 141 posts from 2006 to 2012, back at their original addresses
- Today
- A weekly events calendar, live webcams and weather, and travel guides
- Languages
- English, German, Portuguese, French, Dutch, Polish and Ukrainian
20 years on: 7 of 13 forecasts came true
We went back through the posts from 2006 to 2009 and checked every forecast whose outcome can be verified today. Each one links to the original post.
Came true
- Old Town will be New Town25 August 2006Funchal’s Zona Velha is now where the city goes out to eat.
- A leisure port “by 2008”22 July 2006A year early: cargo moved to Caniçal in 2007.
- The Tall Ships regatta in 200822 July 2006The fleet sailed for Funchal in September 2008.
- easyJet from October 200728 February 2007Flights started from London and Bristol.
- Low-cost flights to Lisbon “next autumn”20 July 2007A year late: on sale from July 2008.
- Jardim will be back20 February 2007Re-elected in May 2007 with 64.2%.
- Ronaldo against Maradona and Pelé14 April 2007Five Ballon d’Or awards.
Did not
- TOBOJUMP: Monte’s toboggans moved to Cabo Girão23 May 2006The toboggans are still in Monte.
- More Spanish visitors on Porto Santo, “definitely”14 June 2006Hola Airlines stopped flying in 2010.
- Pontinha as “the door of entry to Europe”1 December 2007Portugal never recognised it.
- Madeira’s own airline, Fly MI, “soon”13 February 2008No record that it ever flew.
- A “new era” of ferries to the mainland9 April 2008No ferry today, and none in the 2027 budget.
- The Monte railway rebuilt from 201010 November 2009Work never started.
Images
Free to use with credit “Madeira Blog”. Click an image to open the full-size file.
Madeira in the blog’s early years
Photos from posts on Blog.Thoughts.Madeira, 2006 to 2008, restored from the Web Archive. Free to use for coverage of Madeira Blog, credited as shown, for example “Photo: Don Amaro / Madeira Blog archive”.
