AlionLive Return 2 Madeira IS COMPLETE!

This is the end of an "era"! It is done! Nearly 12 hours of video is now available in THIS PLAYLIST. Now this "never ending story" finally comes to an end, just in time before a new Madeira adventure starts. Yes, those of you who hoped, that it now would be enough with my "Madeira craziness" will soon witness another travel report from the island I love SO much. This time I am traveling with Malina again and so I will most probably not film as much as during the last trip. But let's wait and see ;).  As the upcoming trip will not take place in late fall (as the recent ones) but in spring, we will most probably see the island of flowers in a much different way. You will see some familiar places, because I want to show Malina all the fantastic places I discovered in 2012. Still there will also be quite a lot of new places, because we plan to visit some exciting locations, we both are eager to explore. But I will not tell you anything about it yet, to keep some surprises for you ;). I just say: This will ROCK!

The video
In this video you see some views of the Airport in Machico, a few impressions of the flight and my arrival on the Hamburg Airport. After the arrival, you will see me in the worst state ever, because I was totally tired and just wanting to get home to my beloved bathtub. After that, there is a quite long aftermath of the trip. I will describe to you why this video series took so long to be completed and tell you a bit of what I learned during my stay in Madeira, the video production process and a lot more.

Soundtrack
The soundtrack consists entirely of older works of the alionsonny project, which have been released on the album "FREE!", which is, as the title says, available for free download from my website. You can download it by clicking on THIS LINK directly from my homepage.

The soundtrack in detail:

• 00:00 Photosynthesis
• 05:49 Individuality
• 11:51 Springtime
• 17:04 Gandalf the White
• 22:10 Nightdrive
• 27:22 Herbman in Space

And now, have much fun with the video!

Dance the weather apocalypso! "AlionLive Return 2 Madeira" Day 14 is here!

Here is the penultimate part of this video series and once again some pretty turbulent action awaits you. This is mainly caused by the turbulent weather conditions already mentioned in the title. Also the fact that I was in a certain "party mood" contributed to this not just a little. The video was uploaded to the AlionLive Youtube channel already yesterday. First responses give a reason to the assumption that this is probably one of the future top videos on the channel. In general, I would like to thank at this point for the comparatively rapid growth in both views, but also subscribers. This way everything is even more fun.

Let's go to Curral the Freiras
Still weakened by the long hike of the previous day and the beginning of the dengue infection, it was initially quite difficult for me to make a decision for a planning of the day. Another reason was that for this day actually a general strike for Portugal was announced. I took that seriously and was expecting that on this day hardly anything would go. But when I saw that this general strike  was not carried out in any way, I boarded in actually quite nice morning weather a bus towards Curral the Freiras. Once there, the weather changed very quickly from cold, gray and foggy into a full blown storm with pouring rain. Still I hiked in high spirits about 4 hours through the rain until the water (no exaggeration) rolled fist-sized pieces of rock down the street. Since I well remembered the pictures of the landslides in Curral das Freiras from 2010, I did my best to get quickly out of the danger zone. A bus that was waiting at the end of the road as if it was waiting just for me, brought me back to Funchal.

Escape back to Funchal and following the traces of the past
From the window of the bus I saw a place that seemed very familiar to me, namely, the Church of Santo Antonio. Since the remains of the morning's beautiful weather were still there, I decided to leave the bus and walk a bit in the footsteps of the hikes of 2011. Santo Antonio was in fact one of the places that played a big role also on Day 3 of the 2011 trip on video. So I got me a six pack of tasty "Coral Tonica" black beer and after a quite extensive speech, which was complicated by the coming storm, I decided to continue to follow the footsteps of 2011. Despite the previously mentioned storm and heavy rain showers, which were in no way inferior to those in Curral the Freiras, my path led me next to Sao Martinho. Sao Martinho in turn played a certain role in the video on Day 2 of the 2011 trip, because it was the place where I spoke for the first time in Madeira in front of the camera.

Fear & Loathing in Sao Martinho
The now apocalyptic weather and 4 of the 6 bottles "Coral Tonica" inspired me to a rather funky speech in front of the church of Sao Martinho and that's not all: I did my best to play the melody of  "Unrasiert und fern der Heimat" in an admirable dilettantish way on the flute (tin whistle). Subsequently, I talked about "dirty stuff" in front of the church door and went in slowly getting better weather on my way back to the hotel. Once there my "party plans" for the evening were (probably fortunately) nullified, because I learned that my shuttle bus to the airport would go very early the next morning. So I said goodbye in a quite short message and let the day end with two Poncha at the hotel bar.

Soundtrack
The soundtrack this time consists, appropriately as I think, of the latest creations for the still coming in 2014 album "Willma im Wunderland" by my music project "Willma Poppen" . The soundtrack in detail:

00:00 - RaumZeit
05:03 - Blauer Montag
09:44 - Karussell
14:36 - Maschinenmensch
19:32 - RaumReise
23:10 - Himmelswiese
27:59 - Madeira

And here it finally is: A half an hour epic no real AlionLive fan should miss!

AlionLive Return 2 Madeira - Day 13 - Hiking with Beatrice!

Yes, it went pretty fast this time ...and it would have been even faster if dear Youtube would not have freaked again. I do not know what Google has in mind to make this service more and more unusable. But for sure there's a hidden agenda behind it ;). But anyway, let's get to the good stuff. And the good stuff is: The video is now available for you. WHAAAT? SO SHORT? Well , that's why it went so fast ;).

No, the shortness of the video has another cause, and it is already in the title: I was not hiking alone this time, and you know what I think about filming constantly when I have company. You don't? Well, then you have not really seen many of my videos, especially the first "AlionLive Madeira" series. I will not tell too much about the video, but only the following .

The plot
In the morning, at an already well-known place near the bus station, I pondered quite long about what I would like to do on that day. The reason for this was due to the rather uncertain weather conditions. When I came to a somewhat fragile decision, this was thrown overboard later, due to the fact, that I met a nice person. This person had in fact equally vague plans for the day, and we decided to hike together to wherever. And so we went to the Parque Ecologico do Funchal, from there across the plateau (same route as on day 4 ) and then to Poiso. Because the day was still young, we decided the to hike further into the direction of Santo da Serra. In the end, we ended up in Camacha just in time to catch the last bus back to Funchal. Everything else is explained in detail, using text overlays, in the video.

So, this is expected to be the third last video of this series. "Expected", because I am yet not sure, if I will upload day 14 in one piece. You will soon see the reason for yourself ;). By the way: The series is now over 10 hours long! You do not believe it? Well then click here! This is a link to the playlist of the entire series so far. Sweet, eh? So, here is the small, but nice video of day 13! Have fun!

AlionLive Return 2 Madeira - Day 12 is here!

View from Cruz to the south

Yes, this time there was again quite a break since the last video. I will spare the explanation both, you and me. The wait was worth it in my opinion, because you can call this video quite "special" in more than one way .

The plot
I took the bus on the northern part of the island, to Faial. Near Moinhos, I tried unsuccessfully to climb the "Penha d' Aguia" (Eagle Rock). Due to a more than misleading route on the well-loved hiking map, this expedition was quite unpleasant. So I walked along the road towards Porto da Cruz. Since it was still quite early, I decided to continue hiking in the direction of Portela. A sudden tiredness, probably caused by a starting dengue infection, made me abandon that plan. However, I took a wrong turn somewhere and was forced to continue the hike. At the very end of the afternoon I reached Portela and strengthened me with the finest Espetada of the island. Fortunately right after that a bus was going back to Funchal. Once there, it was already dark and oddly enough, I was already incredibly hungry again. So I decided to end the day in the "Ca Te Espero" with a hearty meal and excellent wine.

Highlights 

One highlight is certainly the failed ascent and the subsequent rant. From this I had to cut away a lot of, because firstly the translation to English was almost impossible and secondly, because I have decided to keep my videos at least remotely "family-friendly" ;). In addition, I am driving several dogs mad and give a performance of some, in my opinion, typical "German English. Who asks what is the difference between my English and this, will be spanked ;). Apart from that there is a "rhythmic water hose" and of course many beautiful views of the most beautiful island in the world in acceptable weather.

Music
The soundtrack this time is entirely by my music project "Cimelium". With the exception of two tracks, all tracks are destined for the album "Madeira", which will be released in 2014.

What's next?
The next part (day 13) is very short, because this time I was not hiking alone, but with a very nice person. She will, but only briefly, and only if she agrees, appear in the video. You may have asked yourself what the title of this song means: It's the name of this particular person. So stay tuned for a short video with incomparably special moments .

And here is the current video: