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France Nice to Cape Verde, flights with TACV, July 2010

TACV will operate a weekly flight Nice-Praia as of July 2nd, 2010

The TACV, the national airline of Cape Verde, opens a new transcontinental destination from Nice Côte d’Azur as of July 2, 2010. It will link the Nice Côte d’Azur Airport to Praia, located 2 km from the centre of the capital on the island of Santiago and about 3 400 km from Nice.

Details on the Friday weekly flight :

Nice: 11:00 – Praia: 13h55
Praia: 01h00 – Nice: 09h40

This will allow the Cape Verdean community, strongly implanted in the region, to connect directly to Praia.

Didier Monges, Director of Operations of the Nice Côte d’Azur Airport, said: “We welcome this new transcontinental line which brings to 9 the number of destinations to Africa. This new route with TACV is significant of the spirit of airlines that expect to offer passengers new travel opportunities and also reflects their confidence in the Nice Côte d’Azur Airport.”

The TACV-Cabo Verde Airlines is the national airline of Cape Verde and a limited company. It celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2008, and was awarded the IOSA certificate in 2009 and became a permanent member of IATA.

Original Article – click here

Journal Added to the Gallery

Owen & Nerys (and Family) have just returned from an adventure round the islands of Cape Verde. Read how they travelled to Maio via Boa Vista and Santiago (Praia) to reach Villa Maris.

Owen & Nerys a Maio Journal - click here to view

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Cape Verde to be Entirely Wind-powered

Britain is to spend £26 million building a wind farm to power the entire Cape Verde, the isolated archipelago off the west coast of Africa.

With a population of 500,000 stretched over a 1,500 square mile chain of islands, Cape Verde needs a dramatic expansion of its electricity network to support a rapidly expanding tourism industry.

Cape Verde, which is hurricane blighted, has secured British funding for the construction of 40 wind turbines capable of generating 40 megawatts of electricity.

by Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent
Published: 7:22PM GMT 03 Mar 2010

Daily Telegraph: view article - click here

Maio municipal chamber offers theatre courses

"Life on the Stage" is the theme of a series of theatre workshops and ateliers being offered by the Maio municipal chamber between March 1 and 7 and aimed at the island's young population. During the course, a number of plays will also be presented.

The director of the Maio municipal chamber Department of Youth, Culture and Sports, Fernando Graça, told A Semana Online that the objective of the course is to bring a new dynamic to theatre on the island.

Graça also expressed his hopes that the initiative would serve as support and encouragement to the island's six theatre groups.

Original Article - ASemana Online - click here