Originally Posted by lynnxa (Post 9816385)

I used to work in an academy -I was the busiest teacher there (apart from the owner) simply beacuse I was the most flexible & the most hours I did a week was 15. My earliest class started at 8:30am iirc & my latest finished at 10:30pm

I was lucky in that I lived a 5 min bike ride from the academy, and the woman who did the admin was happy to have my private class timetable & fit the school around that if new individual students wanted to enrol after the beginning of term - I worked my private timetable around their groups in return

I don't work there now because it closed down - it simply didn't have enough students

two other language academies in our town have since closed down, too

Originally Posted by JLFS (Post 9816404)

I suppose the health benefits (at least 20miles a day biking it) were more than the monetary ones.:D

Originally Posted by bobd22 (Post 9816403)

The fact that it has coincided with a Tory government must be a coincidence surely?

Originally Posted by jackytoo (Post 9816461)

Spain said today that the deficit may be more than 8% and there could be further austerity measures in March.

Originally Posted by jackytoo (Post 9816461)

Spain said today that the deficit may be more than 8% and there could be further austerity measures in March.

Originally Posted by JLFS (Post 9815694)

If or when the peseta comes back, prices will still be the same for people living in Spain.

Before the peseta was fixed at 166 to the euro. so the price of a coffee jumped up over night from around 100 pes.

If the peseta comes back then the prices will rise again as if the exchange eurp/peseta comes out and an "awkward" number so that an item costs 467pesetas for example, it will be rounded up to 500.

That is the way it always goes, just the rounding up of awkward numbers will put prices up by a certain percentage....

Peseta or not things will not get cheaper.