Re: Suggestions for Spain Portugal, Madeira and Mallorca, please?
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- Subject: Re: Suggestions for Spain Portugal, Madeira and Mallorca, please?
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- Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 10:27:36 CST6CDT
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> I am taking a monthlong trip to Spain, Portugal, Madeira and Mallorca. and
> will be with a tour most of that time but would like to plan an extension
> for another week.
>
> If you have any suggestions of where to stay in Madeira or Mallorca
> and/or gardens to see in Spain, Portugal, Madeira and Mallorca,
> I would be most appreciative.
Nancy,
When you go to Madeira, do try to drive along the north coast road. It's a
bit like Highway 1 near Big Sur but steeper and wetter, with waterfalls,
ravines, tunnels, vertical cliffs, ocean, etc. Lots of interesting endemic plant
life too. I can't reliably recommend any place to stay, as it was 11 years ago
when I was last there, but Porto do Moniz, in the NW corner, is (was?) a
tiny, charming town with a hotel called the "Orca."
(BTW, for others reading who may not know, Big Sur is a wild area on the
California coast between San Francisco and Los Angeles)
Nick
Nick Turland
Flora of China Project, Missouri Botanical Garden,
P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299, U.S.A.
E-mail: Nicholas.Turland@mobot.org
Phone: +1 314 577 0269 Fax: +1 314 577 9438
MBG web: http://www.mobot.org
FOC web: http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/
