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This pocket-sized full-colour guide is designed for short-break holidays on Madeira with a gastronomic touch. Even if you're not a walker, it's worth having just for the restaurant suggestions, the excursions and the information about local food. The book describes a couple of excursions for all-comers (including how to tour the island inexpensively by bus), plus 13 easy to moderate walks, all illustrated with 1:35,000 topographical maps. Each excursion or walk recommends at least one restaurant en route serving local cuisine, with photograph, price guide, opening times, sample menus, and recipes for some of their specialities.Other sections include: planning your trip, getting about, food shopping (including health foods and local markets), glossary of food terms and restaurant mini-vocabulary.A special feature is the emphasis on natural local foods suitable for those with food intolerances. All recipes have been made by the authors and are known to 'work'. On-line updates keep readers abreast of any route or restaurant changes. "Sunflower have led the field for years with their brilliant Landscapes walking and car touring guides. Now, they have raised their game even higher with a superb new Walk & Eat series." (Frank Barrett, Mail on Sunday)
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71 of 73 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Do not go to Madeira without this book!,
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This review is from: Landscapes of Madeira (Sunflower Landscapes) (Paperback)
If you intend to sit in the hotel all day, you won't need it. But if you're going to Madeira to see the island and appreciate all aspects of its stunning landscapes, then you need to have this book.The car tours are superior to those described in other guides, and will take you to places where there simply are no other tourists - places that no other guide book seems to even mention exist - as well as to the places that everyone goes to see. The descriptions for both walks and car tours are so detailed that you can't get lost, every turn you make carefully described. There are detailed maps for every walk, plus careful assessments of how fit you need to be, the footwear you need and whether you need to have a head for heights! If you're not hiring a car, the bus routes to each walk are given.
52 of 57 people found the following review helpful:
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Landscapes Of Madeira, by Pat and John Underwood.,
By Mr C S Thompson (Stockport, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Landscapes of Madeira (Sunflower Landscapes) (Paperback)
I highly recommend "Landscapes of Madeira, by Pat and John Underwood" Sunflower books ISBN 1-85691-200-0. The book has been written specifically for walking, picnics or short walks using your car, plus dedicated car tours, which guide you by road, to elite locations. All maps are included, car tours and walks are illustrated with colour pictures and detailed easy to follow instructions that "actually explain" how to get to your destination. Even bus timetables are provided. There are several bus companies offering coverage of the entire island. The guide provides a map showing where to get the busses in Funchal (see main town map page) and which colour bus you need to take you to your choice of destination (various bus companies have different colour busses). We based our entire holiday on this book. The only thing I will gain from recommending it is the pleasure of knowing you will have a fantastic holiday - it is "Madeira's bible". I could not ask for more from a guidebook than Pat and John Underwood offer in their Sunflower guide and consider it to be the essential and "reference standard" in walking guide books.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Handy Pocket Guide,
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This review is from: Walk and Eat Madeira (Walk & Eat) (Paperback)
A useful guide, particularly if you like to combine some pleasant walks with food and/or/drink. It's pocket-sized so easy to carry with you, and is well-written with plenty of nice photographs.
All the walks have all been selected with a view to visiting one or more restaurants/bars en route - with an idea of how long it takes to get to them and what to expect from the menu etc., so it's probably most useful for 1st time visitors to the Island, and people, like myself, who like to visit the more out-of-town restaurants & bars. For me it was a little too focused on the food & drink element, and not quite enough on the walks, so I consider it a useful addition rather than a must-have guide - so if hiking is your plan I suggest you consider this alongside other books that have a greater emphasis on the walks themselves, and carry a wider selection of alternatives.
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