Yet more ‘news’ from Ryanair that would give you cause to think they have lost the plot!!!
Michael O’Leary, chief executive of the Irish airline, told Telegraph Travel that it intends to remove all its check-in desks and staff by the end of this year.
“All we will have is a bag drop where passengers can drop [...]
Ryanair to remove airport check-in desks
February 21st, 2009In The News: w/e 16th January 2009
January 16th, 2009
In The News: w/e 16th January 2009
Items that caught the eye for one reason or another recently include:
Of Local Interest
The article on the Almería protest march got a lot of coverage elsewhere on the Internet and we got a call from a producer at ITV in the Uk about providing the video footage for a [...]
In The News: w/e 9th January 2009
January 9th, 2009In The News: w/e 9th January 2009
Items that caught the eye for one reason or another recently include:
Of Local Interest
It looks like La Bahía in the square is one of the first casualties of the 2009 recession as it has a For Rent sign up at the moment.
Talking to a number of golfers recently the [...]
In The News: w/e 2nd January 2009
January 2nd, 2009Items that caught the eye for one reason or another recently include:
Of Local Interest
The minimum wage, known as the Salario Minimo Interprofesional, in Spain is going to rise to 624€ a month for 2009, a increase of 4%.
Electricity prices will rise by an average of 3.4% from 1st January, although exact increase depends on which [...]
When No Answer Means Wrong Answer, Try Again!!
December 11th, 2008So back in June the Irish voted no on the Treaty Of Lisbon. This was in a referendum where the government let the people decide, only it seems that if you don’t decide the way the government wants then you get to have another go!!!
The Irish government will apparently propose later today at the EU [...]
In The News ……. w/e 5th December 2008
December 5th, 2008Some news items that caught the eye for one reason of another this week:
Distinct Lack Of Christmas Spirit
I wrote earlier in the week about Norwich City Council in the UK putting a dampener on the Christmas Spirit, well it seems that the tables have been turned in Almería.
Like many of the Ayuntamientos, including our very [...]
Mediterranean Union To Be Based In Barcelona
November 4th, 2008The Spanish city of Barcelona will host the headquarters of the embryonic 43-nation Mediterranean Union.
The decision was announced on Tuesday at a meeting of foreign ministers from the union’s participating countries in Marseille, southern France.
The union embraces 27 EU states and countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Joint work is planned in areas [...]
UK worst hit by Eurozone Inflation?
November 3rd, 2008I have written about the Eurozone several times on the site, and looking back at previous posts (just search Eurozone) it is pretty alarming just how rapidly things have gone down hill.
Latest prediction say:
Unemployment will increase by 25 per cent next year to hit 2.25 million
The budget deficit will spiral
The economy will contract by [...]
Ryder Cup Day Three – USA 16 1/2 Europe 11 1/2
September 22nd, 2008Bit of a hammering at the end, but a valiant attempt, ad exciting for a while. Was particular impressed with Poulter, Rose and Mc Dowell, but thought that Garcia and Harrington were very poor.
ONce again it proved that the USA have no class at all, players that incite the crowd to applaud a other players [...]
Spanish Drought
August 18th, 2008Spain is experiencing its worst drought in 40 years. Climate experts warn that the country is suffering badly from the impact of climate change and that the Sahara is slowly creeping north – into the Spanish mainland.
A dry fountain: Spanis
Yet in Spain itself there is little consensus about what is to be done. Indeed, such [...]
Eurozone Trade Deficit Shrinking
August 18th, 2008The trade deficit of the 15-nation eurozone shrank sharply in June, but failed to meet forecasts, data shows.
The deficit fell to 101m euros ($149.1m; £79m) in June, from a deficit of 3.9bn euros in May.
While the deficit narrowed, it was far off the 7.5bn-euro surplus seen in June 2007.
0.11€ For SMS Roaming
July 19th, 2008The European Commissioner for the Information Society has said that the retail price of text messaging while roaming should initially be capped at close to €0.11 per message, but then fall toward a long-term goal of around €0.04 per message.
Additionally she (Viviane Reding in case you don’t know who ’she’ is) said “The price of [...]
Aid For Europe’s Fisherman
July 18th, 2008The recent strike by fishermen throughout Europe seems to have resulted in some positive action!!!
The EU is to release emergency aid worth up to two billion euros (£1.6bn) to help the fishing industry cope with high fuel costs and overcapacity.
The emergency aid is to be used in part to cut the size of fishing fleets [...]
UK says yes to Lisbon Treaty
July 17th, 2008Yesterday it was Spain that ratified the Lisbon treaty, today it is the turn of the UK.
The UK has officially ratified the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty.
The documents were deposited with the Italian foreign affairs ministry in Rome on Wednesday.
This is the treaty that ‘we’ were promised a referendum on remember!!!!!
EU Treaty Adopted By Spanish Senate
July 16th, 2008Just over a month after the Irish No Vote on the Lisbon Treaty the Spanish Senate (the upper house of Spain’s parliament, the Cortes Generales, it is made up of 264 members, 208 of whom are directly elected by popular vote, with the other 56 being appointed by the regional legislatures), has adopted it.
Although it [...]
Europe’s First ‘Pick n Mix’ Newspaper
November 17th, 2009Love it or hate it the Internet gives you choice. As a general rule you get to read what you want, when you want, where you want. There can be a lot of crap to wade through, but that is where aggregating sites and blogs play a huge part.
I was really interested to read recently [...]
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