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Living abroad tips and hints for money savers
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Also in Spain, fill up at supermarkets (supermercados). We get ours from Eroski when we go to do our big shop.(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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In Murcia Eroski is the cheapest for fuel, we often find a saving of 7-8cents on diesel.0
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We use Eroski too, and I come off the Motorway, when we get down to the 100 miles/kilometres left, then I just ask the Tom Tom where the nearest supermarket with fuel is.;)
We are getting to the stage now where we know where they are
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Any serious news on snow over the Somport Tunnel? Trying to decide which way to go tomorrow, whether to go via Zaragosa, Huesca, Somport, to Bordeaux or Pamplona, Irun via the motorway?
Will be a funny trip home, as although we are going back when planned, had a phone call early yesterday morning, to let me know my Dad had died suddenly, he was 89 and had been not with us with dementia for 6 years, but still a shock. Awaiting information before we know anything.
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Very sorry to read your sad news, D-G. I realise that under the circumstances there are some reasons to feel a certain relief, but, as you say, the shock of the loss remains.
Can't help with a weather report for the Tunnel area, but I can tell you that we had two inches of snow here yesterday, which froze overnight, but has now mostly all gone, just remaining in deeply shaded areas.
Weather systems seem to have gone completely screwy all round the world. We've never had snow in March before. And that follows the terrible storm and floods on the west coast the weekend before last.
Anyway, have a safe journey back to the UK.Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. - Thomas Sowell, "Is Reality Optional?", 19930 -
Strewth! Put your winter warmers on before watching this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8557570.stm
D-G: It says about 20 inches of snow in northern Spain. Erk!Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. - Thomas Sowell, "Is Reality Optional?", 19930 -
My ex- Geography teacher husband says the weather is all the fault of El Niño (sea current off Peru). Every so often it 'shifts' and then this disrupts the weather patterns for 1000s of miles around.
This also MAY be a factor in the Peru earthquake (although no-one knows really).(AKA HRH_MUngo)
Member #10 of £2 savers club
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton0 -
You don't believe anything said by a teacher, do you?
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. - Thomas Sowell, "Is Reality Optional?", 19930 -
Only two - one knows all about weather systems and the other is a skilled linguist.....:D(AKA HRH_MUngo)
Member #10 of £2 savers club
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton0 -
I really didn't realise just how bad it is down there. Have a look at this short article.
Hope things improve for your journey, D-G.Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. - Thomas Sowell, "Is Reality Optional?", 19930 -
Well we are going up to the North of Spain, think we may keep to the motorways.
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