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Forum: Spain
Apr 9th 2024, 9:46 am
Replies: 14
Views: 403
Posted By olivefarmer

Re: Road Maps - Spain and Portugal

I am with you Steve on maps. We have sat nav built in and Tom Tom. Useful for finding back streets. Ditto withGoogle maps which are very up to date.

For exploring where you research an area for...
Forum: Spain
Apr 9th 2024, 9:26 am
Replies: 11
Views: 506
Posted By olivefarmer

Re: Food inflation - 38%

7 euros…. 9.50 euros? Approx 35% more. Case proved milud
Forum: Spain
Apr 8th 2024, 8:36 am
Replies: 11
Views: 506
Posted By olivefarmer

Re: Food inflation - 38%

I am surprised it is only 38%. It isn’t just simple price increases, quite often the quantity has been reduced as well as the price going up.
Forum: Spain
Mar 29th 2024, 10:40 am
Replies: 5
Views: 420
Posted By olivefarmer

Re: Crackdown on speeding

And it is interesting to see how many killed each year on the roads here werent wearing seatbelts. We have Spanish friends who view them as optional around town! Do a physical count from a roadside...
Forum: Spain
Feb 28th 2024, 7:25 am
Replies: 22
Views: 2,068
Posted By olivefarmer

Re: Movistar/O2

:thumb:
Forum: Spain
Feb 23rd 2024, 5:58 pm
Replies: 22
Views: 2,068
Posted By olivefarmer

Re: Movistar/O2

jaja. It must be a tall tower to be up in space. The clue is in the name. HispaSAT . We get between 59 to 103 mbs . Dont know why it changes but I have had to remake the connection to the router from...
Forum: Spain
Feb 22nd 2024, 8:23 am
Replies: 22
Views: 1,226
Posted By olivefarmer

Re: Farmers' protests

Meanwhile the protests go on. Our Co op is running a bus or buses all The way down to Algeciras to blockade the port.

The EU Farm to Fork has been a failure.

Election year so expect more can...
Forum: Spain
Feb 16th 2024, 7:38 am
Replies: 22
Views: 2,068
Posted By olivefarmer

Re: Movistar/O2

Hispasat is 35 euros a month including IVA. Free instal. Unlimited though when you exceed a threshold, speed is reduced but still streams TV. It is part of a Spanish government scheme to get fast...
Forum: Spain
Feb 12th 2024, 8:23 am
Replies: 22
Views: 1,226
Posted By olivefarmer

Re: Farmers' protests

Lemons 10 cents a kilo

plastic bag 15 cents
Forum: Spain
Feb 9th 2024, 9:46 pm
Replies: 38
Views: 4,711
Posted By olivefarmer

Re: Water restrictions starting.

Voluntary - so those that care carry those that don’t or by price.

When ourvillage water supply was refuced due to the well drying up, everyone pulled together. Regularmeterreadings and the shame...
Forum: Spain
Feb 9th 2024, 7:06 am
Replies: 22
Views: 1,226
Posted By olivefarmer

Re: Farmers' protests

The EU has rescinded or rolled back several rules already. E.g. not having to halve pesticides.

It is a long time to try and kick the can down the road until after the EU elections this summer.
...
Forum: Spain
Feb 3rd 2024, 7:10 pm
Replies: 38
Views: 4,711
Posted By olivefarmer

Re: Water restrictions starting.

we did all that. I think folk have gone doolally. The answer quite simply is to create more water. The pittance and consequently the savings made by domestic users is a mere drop in the ocean. The...
Forum: Spain
Feb 2nd 2024, 2:19 pm
Replies: 38
Views: 4,711
Posted By olivefarmer

Re: Water restrictions starting.

I think most people can make savings but there is a threshold where you have to ask “ do we live in a civilised affluent country?”

every summer for years our village had shortages in summer even...
Forum: Spain
Feb 1st 2024, 4:17 pm
Replies: 38
Views: 4,711
Posted By olivefarmer

Re: Water restrictions starting.

The Junta De Andalucia say we need 30. Days of rain. That clearly isnt going to happen. However we are saved. The Junta has gone to Brussels to get more water.

Meanwhile illegal bore holes...
Forum: Spain
Jan 13th 2024, 7:44 am
Replies: 4
Views: 497
Posted By olivefarmer

Re: Pesticides

Same here, our co op implemented the EU prompted rules about ten years ago. You have to be accredited by taking the co ops course and follow ups. Plus you can only buy sufficient for your registered...
Forum: Spain
Jan 11th 2024, 9:08 am
Replies: 17
Views: 754
Posted By olivefarmer

Apple class action iphone 6

Apple have , I believe , paid out to users of iphones deliberately slowed down , in the USA.

There is a similar action filed in the UK.Plus one in Italy.

I have done a search and here in Spain...
Forum: Spain
Dec 19th 2023, 7:56 am
Replies: 5
Views: 860
Posted By olivefarmer

Re: War on Tourists

I dnn’t see it asa war on touists. It does make sense for residents..
Forum: Spain
Dec 12th 2023, 7:17 am
Replies: 16
Views: 1,287
Posted By olivefarmer

Re: No more cheap flights?

Lets hope the EU also rails against the massive polluter that is the cruise business. European cruise business creates the same pollution as a million or was it a billion cars. ( I am always...
Forum: Spain
Nov 27th 2023, 10:06 pm
Replies: 33
vpn
Views: 1,619
Posted By olivefarmer

Re: vpn

Have you done a speed test withand without vpn? I would be interested in your result.
Forum: Spain
Nov 26th 2023, 2:08 pm
Replies: 0
Views: 431
Posted By olivefarmer

Hispasat Internet for campo

I thought I would share my experience as internet away from towns and villages can be a bit poor. We previously had Movistar 4G and had nothing but a miserable experience especially at busy times,...
Forum: Spain
Nov 26th 2023, 7:56 am
Replies: 33
vpn
Views: 1,619
Posted By olivefarmer

Re: vpn

My experience of Nord was it worked well but throttled the speed by a huge factor making streaming tv via 4G poor during busy times.
Forum: Spain
Nov 24th 2023, 7:10 am
Replies: 9
Views: 731
Posted By olivefarmer

Re: DGT Unveils Guardia Civil’s New Weapon

That is the one.

After all these years , I still find it astonishing.
Forum: Spain
Nov 20th 2023, 10:39 pm
Replies: 9
Views: 731
Posted By olivefarmer

Re: DGT Unveils Guardia Civil’s New Weapon

I saw one of these a few years back at a petrol station on the A92.An old tatty Fiat estate. What alerted me to it was the tech in the grill and bulky stuff over the dashboard line. So I had a walk...
Forum: Spain
Nov 5th 2023, 6:49 pm
Replies: 78
Views: 5,414
Posted By olivefarmer

Re: Economic Migrants

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67227686
Forum: Spain
Nov 4th 2023, 3:19 pm
Replies: 78
Views: 5,414
Posted By olivefarmer

Re: Economic Migrants

It isnt just a UK problem. Germany is creaking under the numbers for example.
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