We drove up to a town called Santana today.  There were some very funny houses there that were triangle shaped!  You could go and have a look inside and see how people used to live in them a very long time ago.  We also went to see a valley which is in the middle of the island.  We couldn’t believe how this man had parked his taxi!!!

Today’s trip was round to see the top of the island.  We saw some lava pools at Porto Moniz.  It was a lot cooler at the north of the island and quite windy.  I nearly blew off the wall!  We then went to a town called São Vicente to see some caves.  The caves were made when volcanoes erupted and the lava flowed down the tubes!  We found out lots of interesting information about how the island of Madeira was formed when the volcanoes erupted, but I didn’t like the caves much.  I like caves that have stalactites and stalagmites best and these had neither!

I had bananas for breakfast today!  We went to a nearby town that was called Calheta and caught a boat from the harbour.  The boat we went on used to be a fishing boat that was used to catch tuna fish!  We had to go a long way out to sea but we were very lucky to see loads of dolphins swimming and jumping out of the water.  The baby dolphins were really funny!

Today we went to the big market in Funchal.  There were lots of different kinds of fruit and vegetables for sale. We bought some passion fruits which I got to taste when we got back to the villa.  I liked the kind of passion fruit we can buy in Scotland best, which is lucky!  There were all sorts of fish for sale at the market too –  I even saw a shark!!! I’m glad Mrs Gaunt didn’t buy that because I don’t think I’d like to eat shark.  I don’t like the look of the octopus either… The long fishes are called scabbard fish.