Today, the UK’s House of Commons backed the post-Brexit EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement. Parliament approved the...

One of the newest additions to the hospitality landscape of the city of Funchal, situated on the island of Madeira, is the four-star Hotel Caju. It opened at the end of 2019 and is the...

Because of the European covid-mess, at the last minute before Germany — unnecessarily — closed all hotels to tourists, I managed to fly to a jewel in the Atlantic Ocean: Madeira....

With mostly heavily Biden-leaning mail-in votes to count left in the U.S. presidential election, Joe Biden was the hot favorite...

Timing is everything in life. Woke up at 07:30 local Madeira time and turned on the TV. It was still set on CNN. Donald Trump was...

Just managed to escape the European covid-chaos and fly to Funchal yesterday. Halleluja! On the island of Madeira, officially,...

The book TRUMP AND US. What he says and why people listen (Amazon.com, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr) by Roderick P. Hart is one of many...

In October 2019, the economist Razeen Sally (*1965) has published a personal, biographical, free-ranging, eclectic and entertaining book which includes historical, political, social,...

A review of Uva Restaurant has of course to start with the fact that the opening and the concept date back to the...

I was looking forward to go back to the great design hotel The Vine, where I have already stayed in 2012 and 2015. The multiple...

Quintinha de São João in Funchal, Madeira is a traditional, old-fashioned, Portuguese style family hotel with only 42 rooms....

In 1801, João José Xavier de Carvalhal Esmeraldo Bettencourt Vasconcelos Sá Machado da Câmara Leme (1778-1837; sorry for the...

Hotel Casa Velha do Palheiro is part of the Palheiro Nature Estate owned by the Blandy family, famous around the globe for their...

My hotel review of the Pestana Carlton Madeira has to start with a charming detail: instead of “Do Not Disturb”, the sign to put on your door reads in big letters: “Having...

The five-star hotel The Cliff Bay in Funchal, Madeira offers understated luxury. Set on a promontory, The Cliff Bay offers direct...

Hotel Porto Santa Maria in Funchal — the city name is the adjective of the Portuguese word for “fennel” — is part...

On September 29, 2020 (US time) the first presidential debate between President Donald J. Trump and his challenger Joe Biden took...

In the summer of 1945, the famous war photographer Robert Capa documented the German capital, bombed to the ground. From September 9, 2020 until April 30, 2021 a selection of 120 of those...

Instant time travel? Yes, that’s possible! Listen to Georg Friedrich Händel’s (aka Handel) Agrippina and, with the...

The book Kairouan or how Paul Klee became a Painter was written in 1921 by Wilhelm Hausenstein, one of the first to recognize the...