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Living abroad tips and hints for money savers
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Unfortunately, your link takes us to an iPlayer page that we can't view outside the UK!
I suspect that you may be referring to the new FreeSat delivery platform of iPlayer. Details of this can be read at https://www.freesat.co.uk, or on Freesat channel 999.
However, the Freesat box has to be connected to your broadband router with a minimum speed of 1Mb, and thus iPlayer will not work. Why? Because the system recognises your router as being outside the UK and won't send signals to it.
It certainly IS possible to use a proxy server to use iPlayer on your computer, but there is no simple system to get at iPlayer outside the UK.
On the other hand, if hartcjhart is actually talking about a full satellite broadband service, these already exist, but are extremely expensive, as I understand it.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 -
droopsnout wrote: »How much is diesel in Spain?
At Eroski this morning 0.999 Euros, sin plomo (unleaded) 1.11 euros.(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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Thank you!! May have a little gallivant across the Pyrenees to Bossost soon. Will tank up there, then!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
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Oh great, have a good time!(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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To find fuel prices in Spain, the link below gives up-to-date price info and location, just enter the province and sort the list in price order to find the cheapest.
http://geoportal.mityc.es/hidrocarburos/eess/#0 -
droopsnout wrote: »Unfortunately, your link takes us to an iPlayer page that we can't view outside the UK!
I suspect that you may be referring to the new FreeSat delivery platform of iPlayer. Details of this can be read at www.freesat.co.uk, or on Freesat channel 999.
However, the Freesat box has to be connected to your broadband router with a minimum speed of 1Mb, and thus iPlayer will not work. Why? Because the system recognises your router as being outside the UK and won't send signals to it.
It certainly IS possible to use a proxy server to use iPlayer on your computer, but there is no simple system to get at iPlayer outside the UK.
On the other hand, if hartcjhart is actually talking about a full satellite broadband service, these already exist, but are extremely expensive, as I understand it.
I will check and come back to youI
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Sun is up, sky is blue, the mountains are greener than I have ever seen them after all the rain, there are loads of flowers, there is snow on the high peaks, the place is gorgeous., it is like something out of Heidi or The Sound of Music...and my house is slowly drying out after having had gallons of rain water injected into it via the porous walls and next door's leaky roof.
We are having an unexpected trip to Calahonda on the CDS. My husband's cousin's son-in-law has an apartment there and we are having it free for ten days. What will be even nicer is that my husband's cousin has arranged it so that when we deliver our son and his girlfriend back to Malaga airport on the 27th April, we then drive down the coast a bit to Calahonda, have our holiday there with her and her husband and then drive back home on the 10th May, collecting another set of friends from Malaga airport on the way. So we don't have to drive to and from Malaga from our house twice (three hour drive each way).
REALLY looking forward to it. Hubby has his cossy out already. Apparently the apartment is in a gated community with two pools.
Then off to the UK on the Pride of Bilbao (for the last time
) on the 14th June (AKA HRH_MUngo)
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Sounds great! Have a wonderful time.
I'm afraid our plans are much more routine and boring than those, although we will be going to Noja for a week at the beginning of May.
The scenery sounds lovely, and I must say that it is also beautiful here, and the swallows and hoopoes have arrived. Wonderful views of the Pyrenees this last week, covered still in snow. My peas are showing through, and there is blossom everywhere.
Looking forward to a peaceful spring and summer, I hope.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 -
When we flew back to Spain last week, I couldn´t believe how green everything was, and this the driest part of Europe (not this winter) we have swallows in the stable and there´s certainly plenty of mud around for them to start repairing their nests (bit like the rest of us with the leaks now drying out) it´s been a lovely warm day today, so pleased to be back. When we left about 3 weeks ago and flew over Almeria, the polution in the sea caused by the muddy Andarax flowing into it was very obvious and managed to take some pix for posterity. Our little (well it was last year) rambla is full of water still and some of the crossings across the rambla have been washed away, causing detours to get to the fields. Happy Semana Santa everyone0
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Felix Semana Santa to you too.
We have swallows and hoopoes too, good to see them. Not so sure about the carpenter bees.....(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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