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  • Exploring Nuns Valley, Madeira | QueenBeady

    Exploring Nuns Valley, Madeira | QueenBeady

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    Stunning. Beautiful. Gorgeous. Breath taking. Just a few of the words I have used time and time again to describe Madeira. I feel like a walking cliché whenever I use them but it’s just so hard not to fall in love with an Island that offers so much beauty with every step you take. It’s a diverse island, from the Sunny & golden Beached South West to the Luscious, green East side there is always something or somewhere to go not too far away. Half way through our trip to Madeira we took a half day trip to Nuns Valley – one of the highest points on the island with fear inducing drops…

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  • Exploring Funchal, Madeira | QueenBeady

    Exploring Funchal, Madeira | QueenBeady

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    Madeira is one of those places that you would rarely even think of to travel to. I have to say it, Madeira needs to be higher on your list. The main resort of Funchal is an array of terracotta roofed houses, mixed with cute white-washed buildings that house local restaurants, shops and fish markets in the old town and the slightly newer part of town has beautifully bright & coloured buildings that echo a similar vein to the towns that surround the Italian Lakes.

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  • Exploring Monte, Madeira | QueenBeady

    Exploring Monte, Madeira | QueenBeady

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    As I write this I still can’t quite believe it’s a little over a month since we got back from Madeira, Portugal. I have previously written a post giving you 5 reasons why you need to go to Madeira shortly after I returned to keep the holiday alive that I won with icelolly.com at the 2015 #BlogAtTheBeach event. I suppose I have put off writing this post as a way to bring it back to life a month or so later, just so I don’t forget about it. My main comment to anyone who asked me “How was Madeira?” I simply replied with my overused, almost rehearsed answer, “It is somewhere that you never think of going, but it just blows you away when you are there.” It’s no lie that Mr C & I have both fallen hook, line & sinker for this Portuguese Island, namely because of the food we ate whilst there (on another level! Preach it!)

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  • Go Ape, Dalby Forest with SimplyHealthUK | QueenBeady

    Go Ape, Dalby Forest with SimplyHealthUK | QueenBeady

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    If like me you like a good challenge, then Go Ape is definitely something you need to tackle one weekend. SimplyHealth UK got in touch with me to see if I was ready for that challenge. My immediate answer was of course a big, fat YES! Having been to Go Ape last July, James & I had already decided that we would be heading back again the following year because we enjoyed it so much. Only this time SimplyHealth UK wanted to provide me with a Fitbit Flex to track my activity on the day.

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  • Do you want to go to the Seaside? | QueenBeady

    Do you want to go to the Seaside? | QueenBeady

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    I’m not try’na sav that everybody wants to go. I fell in love at the seaside, the seaside.

    Oh, the Seaside. One of my favourite places to be. The sights of the blue ocean, the sounds of waves lapping against the shore and the seagulls squarking, to the smells of fish and chips and the real proper doughnuts you can get. There is nothing quite like it and wish I could be nearer to the coast (or alternatively another beach destination? I’m not fussy, Kefalonia, Italy, I’ll take it.) So when we took an impromptu trip to the Yorkshire Coast a couple of Saturday’s ago I was a giddy, little kipper.

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