Funchal was very quiet over the weekend. The town seemed to shut down about 10:30pm, but they certainly didn't stint on the xmas lights. There was a huge array of lights on all the main streets, and even music piped onto some of the very main roads (Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole...my parents would have loved it).
The coast itself wasn't that pretty, the beaches in Funchal are very rocky, so people tend to hop on the ferry to the nearby island of Porto Santo for the idyllic white sandy beach experience, but it wasn't quite warm enough for us to do so.
All in all, it was a lovely, quiet, relaxing weekend and I really loved the tropical gardens, but it's probably the kind of holiday I'd recommend mainly to my parents or grandparents.
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