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Levada do Furado | Christopher Somerville | Portugal, Madeira, Madeira

Most visitors to Madeira end up on a levada walk, sooner or later. Everywhere you go in this outstandingly beautiful Atlantic island you hear of the levadas, ingenious man-made watercourses that writhe like snakes along the green hillsides. People tell you of their beauty, of the enormous extent of them - nearly 1400 miles in all, in an island less than 40 miles long. And you learn all about the head for heights that you need if you are going to tackle one of the narrow maintenance paths that follows the tortuous windings of a levada

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Madeira | Daniel Scott | Portugal, Madeira, Madeira

Like a migrating bird I have flown south and have landed in Madeira

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Madeira in Spring | Christopher Somerville | Portugal, Madeira, Madeira

Portugal’s beautiful Atlantic island is made for ramblers jaded with the dulls and damps of northern Europe; and as for the flowers – well, I was walking on those, brushing the dew from their blooms with my boots

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Walking on Madeira | Solange Hando | Portugal, Madeira, Madeira

The track was barely half a metre wide at times but there was a handrail in the most precarious spots and a few tunnels, vertigo free though even the smallest among us had to crouch to stay clear of the roof

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