THE parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann released heartbreaking holiday video of her today as they prepared to go to Rome to meet the Pope.
Kate and Gerry McCann released two short film clips of their four-year-old daughter, taken by a family friend on a mobile phone on April 28.
They are the last moving images of Madeleine, who disappeared from a hotel room in Portugal on May 3 while her parents dined in a nearby restaurant.
The footage showed the little girl, dressed in pink , climbing the steps to the aircraft at East Midlands airport in Britain and sitting on a shuttle bus at Faro airport.
Mr McCann said his daughter had been so excited about the holiday that when she tripped and grazed her shin, she barely complained, the British Press Association reported.
She was really brave.
She started crying but stopped almost immediately. It was something that usually would have caused 10 minutes of crying rather than 10 seconds.
She was dead excited about going away with the rest of the kids, it was her first time to Portugal,'' he said.
Mr and Mrs McCann, devout Catholics, have been given assurances that a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI will go ahead tomorrow morning at the Vatican.
They are hoping the Pope will refer to Madeleine during prayers in St Peter's Square.
It is now 25 days since Madeleine was abducted in Praia da Luz and there is no sign of police getting any closer to finding her.
One theory being considered is that Madeleine was taken away by boat, and the manager of the Lagos marina told yesterday how there was constant police activity''.
Four people at the marina, including three Britons, had been questioned, according to Ingrid Fortunato.
As police continue hunting for Madeleine's abductor, specialists have been brought from the UK.
Techniques used in the Soham case to find 10-year-old schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman as well as their killer, Ian Huntley, are being used.
Telephone experts are using triangulation points to try and pinpoint all the calls made in the Ocean Club resort on the evening of May 3 when Madeleine was taken.
A suspected sighting in Morocco was ruled out by Interpol after they re-interviewed the woman who claimed to have seen a little girl similar to Madeleine at a petrol station.
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