top driving destination ( NOW WITH PICTURES AND VID)

[thebigfelly]

currently on holiday with the good lady in maderia and must say this island has perfect driving roads , been on a few coach trips now and every single road is great ,

not only that but the trips up into the mountains and over the bridges are tremendous, if any of you saw that episode of top gear where they were going through all the countrys looking for the perfect driving road , and they found they one with al those tight corners and long bends long straight roads, well this island has all of them as soon as i saw them it reminded me of that episode, some dual carriage ways and normal roads all twisting and winding up the hils and all over the island would love to have a scooby over here and hammer around them ,

also must say the amount of tunnels brand new with great acoustics that youd just love to press the throttle on and would here that flat four burbble , just passed through one today on a coach trip that was 3600 metres long and heard a small fiat with a loudish exhaust ,sounded good - for a fiat anyway , theres not much in the way of modded cars over here just seems a few folk with small cars and exhaust upgrades ... and theyve yet to open the new tunnel theyve just built at over 4000 metres long.

if i had the cash to chuck the car in a container and ship it over here for a cpl weeks itd be well worth it , also bonus is alot of the roads out of town where they are twisty and wld be great for rallying and no speed cops or speed cameras anywehre ,

Edited July 8, 2011 by thebigfelly

[BalliSTIc]

Worth looking into an away trip perhaps?

[thebigfelly]

got a couple pics of the roads while on the tour bus, showing how twisty and bendy they are , and how high up the side of the mountain some of them are.also a random vid and and pic i liked

heres a short vid of round the side of a mountain , obviously have to click on it to veiw it ....

and heres the randoms i got , one vid of this french guy who i saw trying to be brave , he deserves it just for being french and wearing budgie smugglers lol KEEP AN EYE ON the bottom left again click on the pic to veiw the vid ....

heres what the airport runway is built on

and heres a pedestrian crossing sign that i liked too

Edited July 7, 2011 by thebigfelly

[marky.t.s]

ha,ha! that auld guy was funny,you get 200 quid of Harry Hill for that.

[BalliSTIc]

Am liking the hairpins...

[thebigfelly]

Am liking the hairpins...

was sure i had more pics of the hairpins and twisty roads up the side of the hills , these roads are basicly always deserted and like i said no speed cops or cameras in sight and the roads are amazing all over the island ,never even saw one pot hole .

its like thier all brand new just waiting on someone to thrash them , only cops i seen in the enitre week was a cpl walking around in the capital city centre and the odd transit police van, and thats where all the trafic is not that im saying thats a good thing as youd never think about driving over the speed limit

, once you leave funchal its just the odd coach , and just full of tunnels all over the island , seriouly group event to maderia, ship the cars there a month in advance and catch a plane the day before they arrive haha