23 May 2012 07:33:

 Don;t listen to rumours, they are not blocking accounts.  This is all to do with the changeover to Bankia which didn't go particularly well and if you read some earlier comments on this site you will find several people have had problems.  If your passport doesn't work, and neither does an older passports, I don't know what to suggest other than keep trying.  They have been a bloody pain but are still letting people withdraw money, honest.

 

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22 May 2012 22:52:

 To log on to the bankia website you need your NIE number or passport number and the PIN number issued with your card.  The NIE or passport will be the one you registered with when you opened your account.  If you opened it with an NIE then that number doesn't change.  If you opened it with a passport, you must use the passport number you opened the account with.  If you have renewed your passport since then that won't work so try using your old passport number.  

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22 May 2012 21:51:

 Oh, good.  Another thread derailed and onto smoking.

Let’s just generalise and stop it here by agreeing that:

Smokers are ashtray smelling, cancer ridden, outcasts, with a shared sense of brotherhood, of a generous disposition, (giving a smoke/light to a total stranger) who pollute the atmosphere with their smoke. Who contribute more to the NHS and general economic well being of the nation by paying more in than they take out, and dying young thus saving you all a fortune in your taxes.

Non-smokers are mean spirited, anti-social, pinch faced, holier than thou, intefering do-gooders, tofu eating, diversity celebrators, who never go to the pub or bring a bottle round when visiting. Never had a day's fun in their lives and are hypocritical, car-driving polluters and are doomed to be billy-no-mates even though they don’t cough up their lungs when they wake up in the morning.

That should just about cover everything you were all going to say.

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22 May 2012 20:32:

 The 140 that Abaco charges is not just for filling in your tax return.  They also ensure all other taxes are paid, any problems with builders, utility companies etc are all dealt with.  Completion of the correct forms for the UK tax man and so on.  That 140 is for all representation throughout the year, not just the income tax.

 

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22 May 2012 16:01:

 The big problem, of course, is that the non "budget" airlines don't use the airports a lot of us want to travel from.   BA, for example, don't fly to Alicante at all.  If you wish to book with them from, say, Heathrow, it can take between 7 and 18 hours via Madrid, sometimes with an overnight stay.  Plus you get Iberia Express from Madrid which is a budget airline, anyway.  Using Lufthansa would be even worse with two stops, 1 in Germany or Holland, then Madrid.  The budget airlines at least go from places like Manchester, Bristol, Glasgow, Birmingham and East Midlands for example which saves the long travel to get to the airport and back.  

The budget airlines are, really, cattle class but if you follow their rules they are usually on time, fairly cheap and, most of all, convenient.  We are flying Easyjet next week from Gatwick to Alicante.  Cost (booked a while back) at £58 each all in is quite good.  They also have 3 flights in a day at convenient times.  Heathrow (just down the road from where my daughter lives) would have been £272 each and taken 8 hours 40 minutes instead of the 2 hours 40 minutes by Easyjet.  Even the more expensive budget airlines like Monarch have now started charging for booking seats and getting to Luton for 7.30 in the morning or Gatwick for 7.45 was not on.  The Easyjet one is a lunchtime flight which is convenient for both leaving and arriving.  

Horses for courses, as they say, but the more races you enter the more chance you have of winning.  Search around for the best deals.

 

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