What are you doing today??

3rdforum wrote:Make sure its unlocked if you want to use an Irish Sim card.

Dermo will my EE phone work over there?

I don't know what network it would partner with over here Trish, but if you google "EE roaming Ireland", it gives the costs of calls and texts ( 4.4p a min, not too bad at all) so I would say that you will be fine. Maybe just give them a call in case roaming hasn't been activated on whatever plan you have with them.

The Lone Ranger wrote:

3rdforum wrote:Make sure its unlocked if you want to use an Irish Sim card.

 I'll get the sim card at home, is that all right?

Mcqueen wrote:Do you put them in upside down

see who has the best deal as regards roaming before you purchase the sim. Every call you make will be charged as if you are abroad, i.e. if you ring me, it will charge you roaming rates as technically, you will be ringing from a UK network, and if you ring home, it will do the same as you aren't in your home country. Double edged sword innit.

And Reg, they are going to Ireland not Australia. Upside down indeed!!!!!

I gave up on the phone idea, basically what you just said Dermo. I'll use Trish's phone!

3rdforum wrote:I don't know what network it would partner with over here Trish, but if you google "EE roaming Ireland", it gives the costs of calls and texts ( 4.4p a min, not too bad at all) so I would say that you will be fine. Maybe just give them a call in case roaming hasn't been activated on whatever plan you have with them.

i checked and i have roaming,so ok

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3rdforum wrote:PM sent to Cam

I'm sure its costly to roam Janet had her new phone roaming in the gloaming in Tenerife,
so i rang Vodaphone and they said switch it off, the roaming not the phone 

Mcqueen wrote:I'm sure its costly to roam Janet had her new phone roaming in the gloaming in Tenerife,
so i rang Vodaphone and they said switch it off, the roaming not the phone 

I will use wifi if necessary. Thanks Reg

Stopped at M6 services and as usual I park where the coaches go. Its nearer to the building! Two vast buses complete with trailers pull up, Ireland to Romania route. Just drivers on one and about 6 punters on the other. Bad news Dermot! They like it there obviously.

feck sake! I thought we had seen the back of those buses. We had 30 buses a day coming at one time. Haven't seen one of them in years.

Scots and Romanians coming...yer getting overrun Dermo!

Fecks sake!!

Celtic V Barca just kicked off...laters!

feck! Had I known about this, I  might have chanced my arm. The land itself is worth 45000. Was sold for 42000 euro.
Joe.ie

Vince lives in a pub, he has a right plot, He's waiting for the rest of the world to move near him.

Only 3 plots left. Not for sale though as I need the space for boats, motorised projects, trailers, motorbikes and other assorted man stuff. Patsy would sell tomorrow though given the choice as she says she doesnt like living here. Where would you go then Patsy? Somewhere on a bus route.   Must be the Irish in her. She drives a car by the way.
Today I am doing a new towbar on my van. Last one broke when I put a boat on it. 

That superglue isn't all it's made out to be, is it?

Meant to be sorting timber for the attic floor. Have to see will my old roof bars fit the new van first. Timber crowd want 90 euros to deliver to me. ( 15 mile round trip! ) feck that!

Feeling quite chuffed with myself. I've just spent the last 6 hours getting my 3 e-mail accounts linked together so they all come to my newest laptop. (the one I gave you Reg). Should have been a 5 minute job but for the life of me I couldn't remember the password for one of them! I had to download some website that can find your passwords for you, but I'm a suspicious bugger so I ran them through some virus scan sites first! It all takes time.

Phone calls and text is all i need really, Emails is always some fecker wanting something

Been to the travel agents, €s bought, car hire paid for, (ended up £93 Dermo due to exchange rate fluctuation, and they stop €1500 on your credit card until you hand the car back... undamaged   ) You get some code from the DVLA site to give the car company as well to prove you're not a bad 'un or something. API info from passports given. New EHIC cards arrived this morning. New credit card should be here on Monday. (Feckin' better be as I won't get the hire car without it! ) Tickets should arrive tomorrow at travel agents for collection.
  Dermo, any pubs where I can here the Uilleann pipes being played? Can't wait to hear them live! I'm gonna put some poor fecker on the spot and ask him to play "Caoineadh Cu Chulainn"!

That car hire/DVLA code thing, I recall us discussing it on here when it came out, I had it in the back of my mind when we were booking the car for our Ireland trip, never got asked for it, just thought seemed a stupid idea so possibly it's been dropped...

thought it was only Spain that required that code?? I know  afew pubs that has a better chance of uillean pipes being played but you must remember, most Irish pubs don't have music playing, mostly because its shite. Tourist pubs will put on any kind of rubbish and the visitors lap that shit up. I'll bring you to a couple of places that do proper stuff.