Funchal Madeira

We landed at Funchal on the beautiful island of Madeira this morning and after breakfast three of us that is John, Jennifer and myself decided just to have a walk around the town as we'd been to the island many times before and done the tours etc. Sheila stayed on board as her back was playing up again.
We headed for the local market as Jen and John had not seen it before. It's quite an interesting place it's on three levels the ground floor level and the first floor mezzanine level sells all manner of exotic fruit and veg, some of which the stall holders offer you to taste.
The lower level is the fish market, there you can buy some of the most unusual and grotesque looking sea creatures known to man....Lol
After visiting the market we headed to the Beatles yacht in the harbour, it apparently was owned by the Beatles when they first became famous in the early 60s and now has been converted into a restaurant and bar, there we had a cold beer and watched the world go by for half an hour.
Very pleasant it was too.
Later back on the ship, while Jen and John went to the restaurant for dinner, Sheila and I went to the Lord's tavern for the quiz as we'd eaten earlier.
It was a TV themed quiz and we were invited to join a team by people we had met on a cruise on this ship two years ago.
I was surprised when they recognized us, but I suppose it's one seen never forgotten lol.
Anyway we won the quiz by a country mile, only dropping two and a half points out of forty....Which only goes to show what couch potatoes we all are and that we should really get out more.....lol
Later we met Jen and John in the crow's nest bar for a few drinks and to watch the duo, who are really good, particularly the female singer who has an unusual and quite brilliant voice, she puts her own twist on all the songs she sings.
We didn't get to bed till turned midnight which for an old codger like me is very late.....Lol
Consequently I didn't get up till 7am this morning (well there's half the day gone...Lol)
It's now 10.15am on Saturday 16th of Feb, the weather is slightly overcast but warm and the Atlantic ocean is like a mill pond....