Funchal and the Guinness Book of Records

We missed it this year for the first time in 30 years, the year it was made official: The Guinness Book of Records had a team on hand to observe the New Year's Eve fireworks display in person, and within hours had confirmed the feat. The Madeira New Year's Eve fireworks display has been declared to be the largest in the world.

In case you missed it, too, if you click here you can access a site that has posted the 11-minute video, which opens with a couple of minutes showing the highway I take to Funchal every day, plus the almost 10 minutes of fireworks display. At the end, you can hear the 8 cruise ships that were in port that night sound off. The site also includes statistics on the number of fireworks set off (e.g., 8000 per minute), but I don't know if it mentions that the cost was on the order of 1 million euros (1.3 million dollars).