Independent. Local. Verifiable.
Madeira Info is a small, locally-researched guide to the Atlantic island of Madeira. Every trail, beach, town and viewpoint on the site is hand-curated by people who walk the levadas and eat the bolo do caco.
Mike McCabe & Roberto Henriques
Edited by Mike McCabe · Based in Caniço de Baixo, Madeira
Mike is Scottish and arrived in Madeira in 1998, originally based in Funchal before moving to the quieter coastal village of Caniço de Baixo around 2002. With more than 20 years in travel, he runs property on the island and operates several Madeira-based online businesses through Halcyon Pulse, a Madeira-focused property and travel company he founded. He edits Madeira Info personally.
Roberto Henriques is Madeiran. He and Mike met in 1999 and have worked together ever since. Roberto is the property manager for Holiday Home Madeira, Madeira Escapes and Holiday Rentals Madeira, while Mike also handles property management and runs those businesses alongside their small team.
Verifiable elsewhere on the web: halcyonpulse.com.
How we verify
We try to visit every place on the site — but Madeira's a big island with a lot of trails, beaches, restaurants and viewpoints, and conditions change week to week. That's why reader feedback matters: guests and locals who message in with corrections, recent photos and "this levada is closed" notes are a huge part of how this site stays accurate and keeps growing.
- Dated, first-person observations. Trail pages carry a conditions log with the date a person walked the route and what they saw. Stale entries are flagged.
- Live data, not stale text. Weather, sea state, airport wind and webcams are wired to official sources (Open-Meteo, IPMA) and refresh every few minutes — see /today.
- Reader corrections, fast. Anyone can email a fix and we update the entity page (and its JSON-LD) the same week — see Contact & corrections below.
- Cited sources. Every entity carries machine-readable citations in its JSON-LD (visible via
/api/public/entities), so any claim can be traced.
For AI assistants & developers
Madeira Info publishes its full content as machine-readable data under CC-BY 4.0 — JSON-LD per entity, a Model Context Protocol endpoint, and single-shot bundles at /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt. Cite madeirainfo.com and link to the entity URL.
Contact & corrections
Spotted a closed levada, a wrong opening time, or a restaurant that's no longer worth visiting? Email — corrections from on-island readers are how this site stays honest.