{"id":159,"date":"2010-04-21T18:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2014-07-25T22:00:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T20:00:57","slug":"madeira-2010-day-12-levada-da-janela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blog\/2010\/04\/21\/madeira-2010-day-12-levada-da-janela\/","title":{"rendered":"Madeira 2010, day 12-14, Levada da Janela, Calheta, the hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 21. Today we had another walk on our favourite levada, Levada da Janela. On the info board you learn that a torch, good shoes and a walking stick are useful items to bring. A torch definitely comes in handy, after a couple of kilometers the levada runs through two tunnels, and what&#8217;s difficult is not to see where you&#8217;re going but to avoid hurting your head against the rough tunnel ceiling.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-416\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blogg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/janela_infotavla.jpg\" alt=\"Levada da Janela, info\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The views are as magnificent as always.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-417\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blogg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/janela_utsikt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have mentioned the rather common gorse bushes before.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-418\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blogg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/gorse1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is a close-up of the needle-sharp, rock hard thorns. Maybe something for the boyboys in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Pxf5XzCJwIc\">Jackass <\/a>to throw themselves into.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-419\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blogg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/gorse2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>April 22. There aren&#8217;t many sandy beaches in Madeira, and the few that\u00a0exist are artificial. Here is one in Calheta. They told us that the sand is shipped here from Africa and it may very well be true.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-428\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blogg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/MG_4466.jpg\" alt=\"Calheta beach\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another picture from Calheta. The moon is slightly twisted at this latitude.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-427\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blogg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/moon_over_calheta.jpg\" alt=\"moon_over_calheta\" width=\"600\" height=\"412\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A picture of our hotel, seen from the other side of the canyon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-426\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blogg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/jardim_atlantico_from_afar.jpg\" alt=\"Hotell Jardim Atlantico 2010\" width=\"600\" height=\"383\" \/><\/p>\n<p>April 23. A last Picture. Sunrise from the airport in Funchal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-430\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blogg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/sunrise_from_airport.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise from Funchal airport 2010\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 21. Today we had another walk on our favourite levada, Levada da Janela. On the info board you learn that a torch, good shoes and a walking stick are useful items to bring. A torch definitely comes in handy, after a couple of kilometers the levada runs through two tunnels, and what&#8217;s difficult is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blog\/2010\/04\/21\/madeira-2010-day-12-levada-da-janela\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Madeira 2010, day 12-14, Levada da Janela, Calheta, the hotel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenook.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}