Morocco and Portugal 2023

Şubat - Nisan 2023

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Darren and Janet Morocco and Portugal 2023
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- 23 Nis 2023
- 🌧 31 °C
- Yükseklik: 24 m
- Singapur Central Singapore Community Development Council Bugis Kampong Kapor 1.307582, 103.8550481°18’27” N 103°51’18” E
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Little India, and away
23 Nisan 2023, Singapur ⋅ 🌧 31 °C
Another early morning, this time for a quick visit to Little India before we check out and fly home.

Little India is the meeting point of the local Indian community. It is a snapshot of the sights, sounds and smells of the culture, and was particularly busy around the shrine this morning. Of course our main activity was caching, so we visited the popular (and some less popular) areas of the city within a city.

We caught the train to the airport early afternoon in readiness for our overnight flight home.

Cache count for the trip: 627Okumaya devam et
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Gezgin That's about 10 caches a day! You've had an amazing holiday, look forward to pics of your next adventures 😀
23.04.2023YanıtlaÇevirmek
Darren and Janet Yes, we had some lean days in Morocco with only 1, but had some 20+ days in Portugal and Germany to make up for it. Thanks - and yours of Japan first!
23.04.2023YanıtlaÇevirmek
sam and bruce thanks for sharing so many amazing pics! welcome home to the beautiful blue skies of Australia
26.04.2023YanıtlaÇevirmek
Darren and Janet 😘
26.04.2023Yanıtla
Gezgin I have seen this many years ago and it still stays with me for some reason :) Did you like it?
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Darren and Janet Morocco and Portugal 2023
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- 22 Nis 2023
- ⛅ 31 °C
- Yükseklik: 42 m
- Singapur Central Singapore Community Development Council Tyersall Park Botanic Gardens 1.311332, 103.8140681°18’41” N 103°48’51” E
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Botanic Gardens and the Bay
22 Nisan 2023, Singapur ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
We took the other method to avoid the heat today and was on the train to the Botanic Gardens just after 8am.

Singapore Botanic Gardens is the only tropical garden to be recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It's immaculately maintained and in addition to the 10,000 plant species, is also home to otters, monitor lizards, squirrels, monkeys and numerous bird species (we saw the last 4, but no sign of the otters today).

We walked the length of the park from south to north, and caught the underground back to the bay area.

After lunch in a cafe in the Esplanade complex with views of the Marina Bay Sands Hotel, we walked back to our hotel via the Merlion, Fullerton Hotel and stumbled across Rodin's sculpture, The Thinker outside the Fullerton Bay Hotel. Turns out Rodin encouraged wide distribution of his art, authorising 23 copies of his work in marble and in bronze during his life and sanctioning the Rodin Museum to create posthumous editions (55 have so far been created). So there are many versions of The Thinker exhibited throughout the world!

Afternoon swim and dinner at Chinatown again, once the sun had gone down.Okumaya devam et
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sam and bruce same thing happened to us at the Diana Memorial Playground - Kensington Gardens. I was not very happy about that!
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Darren and Janet Morocco and Portugal 2023
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- 21 Nis 2023
- ⛅ 31 °C
- Yükseklik: 19 m
- Singapur Central Singapore Community Development Council People’s Park Chinatown Singapore 1.284099, 103.8434461°17’3” N 103°50’36” E
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Chinatown by night
21 Nisan 2023, Singapur ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
We woke up to a massive thunderstorm and torrential rain, so had a bit of a late morning... so late it became afternoon until we left the hotel.

We went in search of a cache on the rooftop around one of the landmark Chinatown skyline buildings, we also visited when last in Singapore (February 2020, just as Covid broke out).

The building is known as the People's Park Complex, a 31-storey mostly residential development straight out of the 1970's. Happily we found the convoluted route to the rooftop and the cache considerably quicker than last time!

Dinner was also a flashback, treating Oliver to dinner at a Michelin star restaurant again... admittedly the Cheapest Michelin-starred meal in the world, Hawker Chan - famous for his Soya Sauce Chicken Rice. His hawker stall had closed for the day, so we went around the corner to his shopfront, where 75% of the menu was sold out, but the signature dish still available. Sadly the serve was no where near the size of last time 😕 (here's the flashback - https://findpenguins.com/4ar8jyvngbq0y/footprin… )

Another visit to the supermarket and another night swim rounded the day out nicely.Okumaya devam et
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sam and bruce beaut - I hope you said the usual "thanks for bringing us here"!
22.04.2023YanıtlaÇevirmek
Darren and Janet 🤣🤣 grimey location, but great view most people don't see!
22.04.2023YanıtlaÇevirmek
sam and bruce yes its a bit smaller but still looks tasty!
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Darren and Janet Morocco and Portugal 2023
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- 20 Nis 2023
- ☁️ 29 °C
- Yükseklik: 25 m
- Singapur Singapore Read Bridge 1.289779, 103.84451°17’23” N 103°50’40” E
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Steamy Singapore
20 Nisan 2023, Singapur ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
We caught the train from the airport to the city, arriving at our hotel at 8am... a little too early to check in, so we dropped our bags and went for a walk in the local area.

We found the nearest supermarket, had some morning tea, and found a few caches before heading back to check-in at 11.30am.

Neither of us slept much on the flight, so we had an afternoon nap before going for another walk along the river late afternoon.

It was very hot walking around, 32 degrees and super humid, so we had a bite of tea and went back to the hotel for a swim before bedtime.Okumaya devam et
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Darren and Janet Morocco and Portugal 2023
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- 19 Nis 2023
- ☁️ 12 °C
- Yükseklik: 425 m
- İsviçre Kanton Zürich Kloten Kloten / Holberg Zurich Airport 47.459301, 8.55947247°27’33” N 8°33’34” E
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Zurich Flughafen
19 Nisan 2023, İsviçre ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
Only one activity today, a flight to Singapore.

The nice thing about an airport hotel, it's just a walk to the terminal.

We departed a few minutes late at 11.55am, but arrived Singapore on time at 5.50 am... to 30 degrees and humid!

Changi Airport is as quiet as a mouse, we were off the plane and had our bags in hand by 6.15 am, ready to catch the train to the city...Okumaya devam et
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John Kalaitzis Great viewing
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Darren and Janet Morocco and Portugal 2023
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- 18 Nis 2023
- ⛅ 15 °C
- Yükseklik: 412 m
- İsviçre Zürich Stampfenbach Hauptbahnhof Zürich 47.376045, 8.54321647°22’34” N 8°32’36” E
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No time to zzz in Zurich
18 Nisan 2023, İsviçre ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
We only have one day in Zurich, so caught the train to the city this morning. This was our first lesson in what an expensive city this is - return train tickets were $22 each (for a 24 hour pass anywhere around the city).

We walked across the many bridges in the city, up and down the funicular to the university, and around the old town streets, stopping for lunch and a few caches on the way. (Lunch from a street caravan was a burger, pesto pasta and 2 cappuccinos... $57. Ouch!)

We noticed plenty of Lamborghinis, Bentleys and Maserati's in the streets, and had a quick look in the Tesla dealership in the heart of the city.

We caught the train back to our airport hotel late afternoon and went for a walk around the park behind the airport, home to the shortest funicular in Switzerland with a length of 78.5 metres and a rise of just 23 metres!Okumaya devam et
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John Kalaitzis Loving it already
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John Kalaitzis That's a good quiz question
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John Kalaitzis That is pretty special
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Darren and Janet Morocco and Portugal 2023
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- 17 Nis 2023
- ☁️ 21 °C
- Yükseklik: 54 m
- Portekiz Madeira Água de Pena Aeroporto Da Madeira 32.697204, -16.77361132°41’50” N 16°46’25” W
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Aeroporto da Madeira
17 Nisan 2023, Portekiz ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
We have an afternoon flight to Zurich, and only 6km to travel to the airport, so we had breakfast on the terrace before making our way to the airport late morning.

The road from Machico to the airport travels under the runway, between the supporting pylons - the runway extension completed in 2000 was built on a platform, partly over the ocean, supported by 180 columns, each about 70 m tall. The terminal itself is mostly underground.

We already had plenty of time to kill, but that was made worse by our plane from Zurich being an hour late leaving, so we were then scheduled to depart Funchal at 5.50pm.

The airport is constantly busy, averaging 84 aircraft movements a day, and handling over 4 million passengers a year. Fortunately the departure lounge is on the top level and has an outdoor viewing area which overlooks the runway!

By the time our departure time came around the original flight plan had expired, so we had another delay on the tarmac, finally taking off at 6.15pm.

We arrived Zurich at 10.50pm and were thankful that we booked an airport hotel, so we were in the room by 11.45pm (the bloke in front of us at reception didn't have a booking... and both hotels in this area are fully booked with a conference this week, so he may have been in for a long night!)Okumaya devam et
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John Kalaitzis Was the name change to include their famous footballing son?
17.04.2023YanıtlaÇevirmek
Darren and Janet Yes, formerly Santa Catarina Airport and now officially Cristiano Ronaldo International Airport - during its renaming ceremony in 2017, the airport drew media notoriety for an infamous bust of Ronaldo unveiled at the ceremony, since replaced. Neither the bust nor the name change were unanimous, actually far from a consensus - the name change was subject to much debate and controversy locally by politicians and citizens, who even started a petition against the move.
17.04.2023YanıtlaÇevirmek
John Kalaitzis Oh crikey. Why did the bust cause such controversy?
18.04.2023YanıtlaÇevirmek
Darren and Janet It was mocked mercilessly because it was such a poor representation of him. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/44518595
19.04.2023YanıtlaÇevirmek
John Kalaitzis Well I think the critics have a point. That's a shocker!
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Darren and Janet 🤣
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Darren and Janet Morocco and Portugal 2023
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- 16 Nis 2023
- ☀️ 22 °C
- Yükseklik: Deniz seviyesi
- Portekiz Madeira Machico Praia Machico 32.717664, -16.76325232°43’4” N 16°45’48” W
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Meandering in Machico
16 Nisan 2023, Portekiz ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Free day in Machico today, and the weather is warm and clear, so we thought we do some of the walking tracks around town.

As we discovered in Porto Moniz, there are walking tracks throughout each town, but they don't appear on any maps, so it's a bit of trial and error to get the right one.

We began near our apartment on the western side of town, with a track that crosses the main highway and heads toward the airport. It got very steep, very quickly, so we found another path down, back towards to centre of town.

After some meandering we realised we were only a few hundred metres from one last cache (there's always just one more 🤣), so we trekked up the hill to the east to claim it.

We found a series of levadas and roads down to the beach to join Bek and Jake for alfresco lunch near the fort, then headed back uphill to our accommodation for a quiet afternoon.Okumaya devam et
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John Kalaitzis Crikey, what happened?
17.04.2023YanıtlaÇevirmek
Darren and Janet Not sure... if only the walks could speak...
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John Kalaitzis Weird that it was just abandoned?
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Darren and Janet Morocco and Portugal 2023
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- 15 Nis 2023 13:10
- ⛅ 19 °C
- Yükseklik: 128 m
- Portekiz Madeira Caniçal Ponta do Castelo 32.749146, -16.70814432°44’57” N 16°42’29” W
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North Coast
15 Nisan 2023, Portekiz ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Time to leave Porto Moniz and travel across the north coast from west to east.

We engaged the same taxi driver to pick us up and give us a tour of the north coast, narrowly avoiding a road block as the São Vicente Car Rally was starting on the public roads this morning.

We stopped at the black sand beach of Sexial, voted in the top 3 beaches in Europe in 2022 - not for the quality the beach (because the blank sand turns to black mud after going in the water), but because of the setting.

We stopped briefly to see some traditional Madeiran triangle houses in Santana. They are made of straw and wood because they were both abundant materials in the early days, and the high pitched roof assisted to keep the rainwater running off.

Another glass viewpoint visited at Guindaste, this one vying for the world's shortest? 😂

Porto Da Cruz is home to a rum distillery, so while Bek and Jake sampled their wares, Oliver and I climbed the nearby viewpoint for a cache and watched the many surfers in the bay.

Two more viewing areas were visited before arriving in Machico, both with views of the airport. We stayed a while and watched a number of planes take off and land - the airport is certainly busier that we thought it would be!

After settling into our accommodation, we headed to the city centre for a late lunch and a walk around the beach front, which is split into two by a breakwater. One end is a pebble covered surf beach, the other a sandy swimming beach in a protected end of the bay. It is one of the few sandy beaches of Madeira, with sand imported from North Africa. The sand imports were quite controversial, as the sand was taken from Western Sahara, a Non-Self Governing Territory which has been largely occupied by Morocco since 1975.Okumaya devam et
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John Kalaitzis Spectacular
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John Kalaitzis A plane spotters dream
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Darren and Janet Certainly is!
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Darren and Janet Morocco and Portugal 2023
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- 14 Nis 2023
- ☀️ 18 °C
- Yükseklik: 3 m
- Portekiz Madeira Porto Moniz Piscinas Naturais de Porto Moniz 32.868595, -17.16934232°52’7” N 17°10’10” W
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Caching up and down the mountain
14 Nisan 2023, Portekiz ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
The weather is cool and overcast again today, so our plan to swim in the natural sea baths was put on hold.

We solved a puzzle cache this morning so we set out on a mission! It was located beyond the end of a walking path, about 700m from our apartment. After some searching we found that one and was walking back to town past the school got chatting to the caretaker (it's currently school holidays), so we had a look around their indoor football stadium and 6 lane swimming pool... and he motioned that there is a walking path up the mountain (his English was as good as our Portuguese 😁).

We set off up the path (toward a cache that we aborted the search for 2 nights ago when we ran out of footpath), and kept going up until we reached our destination. And, as luck would have it, a local cafe was just up the road. After a steak sandwich, coffee and Portuguese tart, we headed back down the walking path toward the coast.

Still too cold for a swim, we walked around the town for a while, and had dinner in.Okumaya devam et
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John Kalaitzis Great view
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John Kalaitzis They do look inviting
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John Kalaitzis A bit bracing for someone?
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