subject: Keeping In Touch From Cape Verde [print this page] No matter how far away you are, these days it is incredibly easy to stay up to date on the lives of your loved ones.
In the old days, the telephone used to be the best medium for catching up with faraway relatives. However, long distance calling charges from most properties in Cape Verde can be atrocious and when these add up they can come to a very costly phone bill. Luckily, there are enough alternative ways to keep in touch that the telephone is almost unnecessary.
The following services for staying connected are all free, so as long as you have an internet connection at your Cape Verde property, you will be able to share as much as you want with your friends and family back home without spending an extra penny.
Here are some of the best ways that you can stay in touch from your Cape Verde property.
Skype
This is probably the best program you can possibly download for staying in touch with friends back home while you are at your property in Cape Verde. Skype is an internet phone service that you can download for free. It allows you to voice chat and video chat with other Skype users for free, and make incredibly cheap phone calls to landlines and mobile phones. Once you have downloaded the application to your laptop, have your family download it as well so that you can talk for hours and hours without the pressure of a phone bill adding up dramatically. Invest in a webcam as well, so that you can see each other as you chat!
Facebook
Facebook is another great way to keep in touch with friends and family while living abroad. You can update your status to give your loved ones a quick summary of how you are doing, and you can upload photos of your property in Cape Verde so that they can see how beautiful it is! Facebook also now features a chat function and one of the advantages of living in Cape Verde is that it is on the same time zone as the UK, so that you are likely to be online at the same time as your friends and will be able to catch them on the chat.
Blogs
Why not create a blog about your new life in Cape Verde? There are plenty of free services such as Blogger that make it easy to create one even if you have no HTML programming knowledge. Write posts about your adventures for all of your friends and family back home to read and make them jealous of all the fun you are having in Cape Verde!
