Perched mountainside in the Calheta Village on Madeira is Saccharum Resort–one of seven Savoy Signature properties (a proudly Madeiran-owned hotel group), and our top pick for a romantic escape, ...

Mary Lussiana was born in England to Anglo-Polish parents and wrote three Polish cookery books during her 10 years living in Poland during the 1990s. In 2001, she moved to her current home in Portugal ...

Being pampered amid the elegant luxury of one of the world’s most gorgeously-situated hotels, it was easy to forget that this was an island recovering from a natural disaster of huge proportions. On ...

I was warned that Madeira is no place to build sandcastles; but quite how depleted it is of sand still came as a surprise. Its intriguing primordial rawness - a result of ancient volcanic activity - ...