Associação dos Carreiros do Monte
Wicker toboggans on greased wooden runners, steered downhill by white-clad drivers in rubber boots.
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This guide to the Associação dos Carreiros do Monte, the wicker toboggan run above Funchal on Madeira, starts with a famous line credited to Ernest Hemingway and asks whether he ever said it. It then turns to a stranger puzzle: how a sledge works on an island with no snow. You'll meet the white-clad carreiros and the Camacha willow of the baskets, best heard beside the sledges below Monte Church.
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