Enrico's Travel Blog

Halloween, Saturday On board the SS Mariner heading to Bermuda Approximately traveled 192 nautical miles (218 statue miles) from Funchal by 05:30 on the 31st. We pushed through the night. Cutting through, riding over, and getting hit broadside by the 3 – 5-meter (12 – 15 foot) waves. The scopolamine patches appear to be working. Trying but not seasick. During the Captain’s noon announcement today, he said we should be out of rough seas by noon tomorrow. We don’t really care

Friday Docked at Cidade do Funchal, Maderia, Portugal Cidade do Funchal, the City of Funchal, is the capital, largest city and a municipality on the Island of Maderia. It is part of Portugal. The settlement of Funchal began somewhere between 1420 and 1425. The first settlers named their settlement Funchal after he abundant wild fennel that grew here. The name, Funchal, is formed from the Portuguese word for fennel, funcho, and the suffix -al, to denture a “plantation of f

Thursday On board the SS Mariner in the Atlantic Ocean on our way to the port of Funchal on the island of Maderia, Portugal located about 450 miles off the coast of Morocco in Africa. Good morning. Our iPhones changed to Portugese time, an hour earlier but the ship won’t change time until tonight. We didn’t realize this until later this morning. I got up and headed down to the coffee connection at just before 06:00, at least according to my watch. The coffee connection wa