You genius Debsy!
I quite fancy a trip to Istanbul, drinking coffee and eating turkish delight! Perhaps I can face Northern Greece and stick me fingers up! :D (At me parents). They'd be right narked if I went to Turkey instead of Greece! :D

Yes and you could get Blim to take you to the Covered Bazaar and buy you some Gold. There are some lovely things to see there ok if you can get a cheap flight.

Hi Debsy
I just put a question up in the lounge...although Turkey looks a good option... Blim has just asked me if you have an idea of how much a cheap flight would be etc.?
Ta,
Larissa

I think we paid 175GBP to fly with BA in 2001. It is a brilliant city.

If you have have op in Istanbul how do you get to the follow-up appointments?

Mine were the Trent Nathan brand, never heard of them before, but they look OK.
It looks i'll be ordering them today, as my glasses fell in half yesterday, shortly after my post discussing their possible replacement !! Do you think they have feelings :D

I never ever in a million years ever thought I would even read a thread like this, but I have just come back from the optometrists & I have to have glasses!!!!!


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ABC, Trent Nathan is an Australian designer brand, & has been around a long time over here. Usually associated with clothes, but has obviously now gone into glasses as well (like Giorgio Armani & many others!).

I dont know what brand the frames I was looking at are (cant remember), but the 2 that Im chosing between are $215 & $240. I didnt even ask about costs of lenses.

I've just got back from ordering mine, and it's an extra $80 for the anti-refective coating, so thats $530 all up !

But they transferred my existing lenses, from the broken frame, into a spare frame (identical sunglasses) free of charge.

Are yours ones that have to be worn all the time ABC?

Yep, unfortunately.
I started to wear them just for reading, as my arms weren't long enough (I'm long sighted), but it didn't take long to need to wear them full time.

Malaysia is the place to buy specs, least expensive specs in the world, even cheaper when you haggle;)






joem

I went down & ordered mine this morning, I have astigmatism (if that makes any difference to anything). I got a pair of lightweight frames with clip on sunglasses for $260 (cant remember what they are called, they look nice though) & the lenses were $100. I paid an extra $30 for the anti-reflective lenses. Total cost $390, health fund paid $200 of it.

Compared with yours they are cheap ABC! :eek:

The astigmatism is a slight mishaping of the retina. At least that is what the optician explained to me.

I'm long sighted, too, and wear the varifocals. (Very little correction at the top, for long sight, and stronger correction at the bottom, for reading. Very useful when driving, as you can see both the road ahead AND the speedo.) I got my Raybans changed at the same time. That was in the UK, about 3 years ago, and I think it cost something like 250 squids for two sets of lenses, one tinted, and one set of frames. (But that's memory, and I wasn't paying much attention to the cost, at the time.)

Is that what you got?

Yeah I looked it up in google, what it actually is is a PITA! According to the optometrist my left eye is so bad that I would fail a driving licence if it were done on each individual eye :eek: . Luckily a basic car licence is done with both eyes at once so Im safe, but Im not allowed to drive at night or in the rain until I get my glasses.

But what I meant by my comment was that I have astigmatism, if that makes any difference to the type & therefore price of lenses I have in my glasses compared with, say, myopia ;) :).