I explain the TelexFree Pyramid fever , part 2 with photos

I wrote the simplest explanation for how Funchal bus tickets work

Due to costs being high & budget places not being listed in guidebooks or internet we maintain a list of budget places here
- check the WWOOF places
Also worth checking http://www.hostelworld.com or http://www.hostelz.com '''Hostel type prices''' may be found through offers
CS page lists many freecamping places

- rationalist : none
- Science - not much
- skeptic - NOTHING
- freethinkers - NOTHING
- secularist -
- Humanist - NOTHING
- brights - NOTHING

- Cheap Internet - Free and libraries and youth centres, public wifi in town centres, & 60% of cafes .. why pay ?

- Funchal Bargains :
- see my cafe tips
- Bargain shops :
Funchal Car boot sales
- middle Sunday of month, in carpark next to Santa Luzia Park old sugar factory
car park, next to Jardim, 31, Rua de Janeiro - Funchal central
- last Sunday of month, in Casino carpark

1st & 3rd Sunday in S Martinho : Feria de Rabichos crochet ..art market

- all Saturdays Fleamarket - load of rubbish mostly : Near Teleferico outside the Madeira Story Museum.
- Saturdays ? Art Market in Parque Municipal & Rua Das Pretas (stalls rotate position each week) Mercarte on FB..still running often
- free ads site for Madeira for 2nd had furniture, cars etc. : www.custojusto.pt/madeira

ART : artist house Pedrasina the Foreign artists house in Funchal.. Their crowdfunding

- nearest thing to a anarchist art house Espaco 116, 116 Arts Events art warehouse centre is opening

Checking English language newspapers
- The Brit Madeira
- themadeiratimes very slow, cos loads Filmon forum deadish .. changed now to madeira-active.network-maker.com/
- MadeiraClassifieds stopped in 2012

Checking English language Radio - none ?

Funny - Check youtube Madeira dueling singing style called despeque

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TOURISM
- NEW OFFICIAL MADEIRA TOURISM website
- Funchal Events - no site found

DIRECTORIES
- main newsblog madeiraislanddirect.com/blog
- Forum old
- CoworkFunchal on FB

Couch Surfing Forum (sometimes hidden on FB)
- Complainers are moving to bewelcome.org only 1 member or forums are active
- Madeira.. The CS places button has Funchal, and Madeira takes you to the same page
- FB Couchsurfing Madeira
Check subgroups for province and sub sub for cities
- CS Wiki Closed down
- Instead Use Hitchwiki Madeira empty or from couchwiki.org no page
wikivoyage Madeira some stuff
- LP Madeira no info .. Madeira LP Forum thorntree thorntree Forum not much
- CHECK CS EVENTS **
- CS camps can't find them anymore

Local Erasmus students group on FB

Tourist office January Events ... tourist office on FB
.......February Events

- CS EVENTS : Saturdays : Mafia_Game at Phil's Haven
Normally we go for hike on Sundays... "We create the event here and/or in Facebook CS Madeira Islands group. "

History of Funchal Exhibition €€ until June 1 at Jesuits College, Praca da Camara http://aauma.uma.pt/index.php/component/content/article?id=5432&Itemid

check groups for Cultural and languages exchange meeting ( CLEM ) NONE
- Facebook Chat English None
- Babel's meetups are NOT language lessons, we just meet, talk and have fun together while making new friends. - no group find
- Funchal UK Citizens stuff Not much mainly around English Church or U3A Wed Tea & Cake FREE 3pm, Sat 10.30-12.30 Coffee Morning

- See library posters - It seems like Canico many towns are running these 'anda para saude' programmes once each month (Saturday the Canico group has 66 people going) ..also group in Camara de Lobos

Want to practice English ?
2. Madeira U3A Walking Group U usually the 1st Thursday of the month
Free, but they tend to do €10 lunches
Tip : they put their routes on the web, so you can steal their walks : go the week after by yourself and pay no money !

U3A = University of the third age is mostly British pensioners, but actually there is no rule about age, so anyone can go.
They have 7 other meetup groups too : like books, photography etc.

- TA Madeira_Islands loads of posts
TA Madeira Forum the busiest forum
- TA Funchal travel guide is hidden away (not on the main Funchal page)
Useful cos already answers most of peoples questions that they post in the forum ...can't edit from Internet Explorer
TA FUNCHAL Forum

- VT Madeira island ..some under province also
VT Madeira island Forum quite active
- VT Funchal Guide
VT Funchal Forum on VT (renamed TRAVEL ANSWERS)

dead :
- expatforum.com Portugal not Madeira
- angloinfo.com No nothing for Madeira
- alloexpat.com nothin
- expatexchange.com NO
- britishexpats.com No
- expatfocus.com bits

- It seems diffcult, much of the businesses are BS & jobs are found through knowing someone as jobs are not so often advertised
- Classified jobs job bid site CHECK
- Madeira Emprego on Facebook
- try OLX some jobs
- Madeira Gov job service only gives job number not details Sapo job listing site
Angloinfo.com Portugal job tips
- Portugal Gov jobwebsite doesn't work in Madeira cos it's independent
- European jobsite EURES doesn't work in Madeira
- Manpower website But they don't operate in Madeira

- list of language schools not
- justlanded.com some beware only top of page is jobs rest is ads and most are people looking for work
- employment Agencies list not found

Gov employment Offices District Superiors:

- WWOOF is an alternative to staying at a hostel You pay by working half the day on the organic farm. see my notes on 2 Madeira WWOOF farms .. Also below I list 2 unofficial ones

- Dutch pensioners vineyard..garden & guard houses alstroemeria flowers.
@Ponta do Pargo Madeira 
houses, workaway link

another in Boca da Corrida
- "head for Estreito de Cãmara de Lobos... continue up towards Boca da Corrida ... to Forestry Guards House .. rough track with a sign 'Montado dos Aviceiros' 
- From Helpx.net listed in the first 4 above

VOLUNTEER check vfp.org - but UK site has better search to filter out younger age projects