Hi charlie i,m sending this mail from madeira i think it,s great all your folks like the cannaries keeps this place clean quite and well behaved.I,m an intolarant B@$*@RD so you might just like it here,stay in funchal city hotel do carmo or the windsor both have rooftop pools and you can strole in to the city to eat at night (NO CRIME NO MUGGINGS)not the same as the cannaries.GO FOR IT MATE!!! Im typing this having lived here olmost the last year but got to go to UK tomorow till new year to get some ????? then back for most of next year.P.S. IF you are a drunk yob don,t come you will hate lack of loud bars the police the prison .KIND REGARDS ALAN F