Câmara de Lobos
Working fishing harbour of painted double-bowed boats, famed for black scabbardfish and poncha.
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This guide to Câmara de Lobos on Madeira follows the town's fishermen as they push off from the pebble harbour in the late afternoon, chasing a deep-sea hunter that only comes up in the dark. Along the way it turns to the drink the town claims as its own, and to what ends up on a local plate. Best heard standing by the painted boats pulled up on the stones.
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