The original Madeira island news blog
JM (Journal da Madeira) reports today that TAP have announced additional flights to both Madeira and the Azores over the Christmas period due to “high demand” – adding a total of 20,000 seats to the two destinations. The period between 18th December and the 5th of January ............
This morning I am sure that everybody’s thoughts are with the people of Paris. The Portuguese Foreign Ministry have announced that a 63 year-old Portuguese working in tourism, who was near the Stade de France last night, died in the terrorist attacks.
Only one of the five Lufthansa flights normally scheduled between various German destinations and Portugal will take place today – presumably with repercussions for Germans planning to connect to/from Madeira using easyJet and TAP from both Porto and Lisbon. In total 929 flights ............
The Diario today reports that the operation of the maritime facilities at Calheta will be offered to private businesses on the basis of a 30-year contract. Interested parties have 45 days before a tender process begins. The marina, shops and car-parking areas are all included in the ............
The Diario today leads with the observation that it is normal in most democratic countries and regions for the head of the executive assembly to enter parliament for debate on a regular basis. They note, however, that in Madeira it has taken 40 years for the President of the Regional ............
The Wall Street Journal today reports that Portugal is teetering on the edge of political instability and is in danger of adopting leftist opposition to Eurozone fiscal rules.
Last week President Aníbal Cavaco Silva asked incumbent Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho to form ............
The recent unsettled wet and windy weather took me to the Czech website windguru, which proved remarkably accurate – even in predicting the amount of rain that would fall over a particular three-hour period, ............
Both the Daily Mail and the ............