Mountain style farming.
Hello!! Greetings from the high seas. We just set sail from our last European port and have begun crossing the Atlantic. I haven't blogged for awhile, so I'll try to catch up over the next week. Here are pictures from the Portuguese island of Madeira, mostly taken from the "hop on hop off" bus. You can see the tiered agricultural system that the people developed to cope with the mountainous landscape. Grape vines and banana trees were all over the place (those are banana trees in the picture). Madeira has been known for centuries for its wine - Shakespeare even wrote about it - one of his characters wanted to die by drowning in a barrel of it. Beautiful place, sunshine and warm weather in December!!!
