The void floor
The ocean vertical beneath the glass.
Bjørn Christian Tørrissen — CC BY-SA 3.0 · David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada — CC BY 2.0 · Krzysztof Popławski — CC BY 4.0 · Michael Gaylard from Horsham, UK — CC BY 2.0
Churchill wintered in Madeira (1950) and set his easel at the fishermen's bay painting its coloured boats — the village named his corner the Churchill viewpoint and his canvases became the island's most famous advertisement. The bay stands nearly as he painted it — the grilled fish on its quay the west's truest lunch.
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Cabo Girão is Madeira's famous brink: a 580-metre sea cliff — among Europe's highest, and its highest with a glass platform: the Skywalk's transparent floor hangs you straight over the void, the ocean vertically beneath your feet and the fajãs — the tiny farmed cliff-base fields — as microscopic green patches explaining the Madeiran farmer's stubbornness. The thrill is entirely safe (engineered glass and rails) yet knees genuinely tremble — the eastward scene running Câmara de Lobos and Funchal to the island's head. Fifteen minutes from Funchal — pair it with Câmara de Lobos below: the coloured fishermen's bay Churchill painted (his corner named for him), its boats and grilled fish — the standard western half-day pair, extendable for the willing: the Boaventura route's waterfalls and the south road.
The ocean vertical beneath the glass.
The microscopic base fields — the farmer's stubbornness.
Cabo Girão, 9300 Câmara de Lobos