Madeira Island

[d-t]

Hi does anybody out there have any info on naturism in madeira for clothing optional beaches over there.. im off there in a few weeks and would like find out as much as poss before going.
thanks
dave..

[d-t]

Hi does anybody out there have any info on naturism in madeira for clothing optional beaches over there.. im off there in a few weeks and would like find out as much as poss before going.
thanks
dave..

[S.M.A.]

Please refresh my memory for just a moment- where exactly is Madiera Island?

Just wondering, a very humbled geography buff

[themightysven]

I believe (off the top of my head) that it's in the atlantic, between the azores and the canaries. hmm, maybe Madeira should be a tint of green.

[Naturist Mark]

The Madeira Islands are a Portuguese possession off the coast of Morocco.

http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/upload/img_400/port_islands_400.gif

-Mark

[S.M.A.]

Thanks again, Mark. I had never heard of it until now. Seems like a nice place.

[Rex]

Madeira is renowned for fine wine, as the following song suggests:


She was young, she was pure, she was new, she was nice
She was fair, she was sweet seventeen.
He was old, he was vile, and no stranger to vice
He was base, he was bad, he was mean.
He had slyly inveigled her up to his flat
To view his collection of stamps,
And he said as he hastened to put out the cat,
The wine, his cigar and the lamps:

Have some madeira, m'dear. You really have nothing to fear.
I'm not trying to tempt you, that wouldn't be right,
You shouldn't drink spirits at this time of night.
Have some madeira, m'dear. It's really much nicer than beer.
I don't care for sherry, one cannot drink stout,
And port is a wine I can well do without...
It's simply a case of chacun a son gout
Have some madeira, m'dear.

Unaware of the wiles of the snake-in-the-grass
And the fate of the maiden who topes,
She lowered her standards by raising her glass,
Her courage, her eyes and his hopes.
She sipped it, she drank it, she drained it, she did!
He promptly refilled it again,
And he said as he secretly carved one more notch
On the butt of his gold-headed cane:

Have some madeira, m'dear,
I've got a small cask of it here.
And once it's been opened, you know it won't keep.
Do finish it up. It will help you to sleep.
Have some madeira, m'dear.
It's really an excellent year.
Now if it were gin, you'd be wrong to say yes
The evil gin does would be hard to assess..
Besides it's inclined to affect me prowess,
Have some madeira, m'dear.

Then there flashed through her mind what her mother had said
With her antepenultimate breath,
"Oh my child, should you look on the wine that is red
Be prepared for a fate worse than death!"
She let go her glass with a shrill little cry,
Crash! Tinkle! it fell to the floor;
When he asked, "What in Heaven?" She made no reply,
Up her mind, and a dash for the door.

Hey Rex ...Where do you find all these songs...I thought I had heard them all...but not this one...Thanks for sharing...Odb /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[CalgaryMark]

The song is from Michael Flanders and Donald Swann's review 'At the Drop of a Hat'. The show ran in London, England, in the 50's or 60's and also went to the USA as 'At the Drop of a Stetson'. Flanders wrote the words, and Swann was the pianist - Flanders used a wheelchair to get around, and many of his jokes and songs made fun of his condition - but always with a twist, to help us able-bodied people realize some of the challenges that others face.

There are any other songs, many are part of the life of us in our 50's and 60's. Perhaps the best known is the hippopotamus song.