24 Jan 2015 1:50 PM:

We need a replacement anyone recently purchased one and do you have any recommendations. We have recommendations for people in the UK but carriage is over £100.

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19 Oct 2014 9:06 AM:

I have both private and NHS hearing aids because like you everyone seemed to be whispering. The private in the ear cost £2500 and I have to say have been fantastic the only problem being I get continual infections in the left ear so do not wear one in that ear but have had the right one adjusted so everything is fine. I have had two pairs of NHS ones and they have been awful continual whistling noise in my ears but they are free and I suppose if I keep going back to the clinic they will eventually sort it. I bought batteries for my private one in Spain and they cost 4 times what I paid for them in UK so goodness knows how much the actual hearing aid would cost. I have to say I got to the stage that I had to do something I felt excluded from conversations and watching TV was hard work. Good luck with your search.

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03 Aug 2014 3:36 PM:

Hello Acer your reply interested me. I was an Insurance Broker for over 40 years and yes I agree kitchen units are classed as buildings in the UK. When we bought in Spain I went along to the Insurance Broker in Town and guess what I was informed categorically that Spanish Insurers class fitted kitchens as contents.Everything is different in Spain!!!  I was also told that an Insurer in Spain required 2 months notice of cancellation. I am sure if the lady in question wrote to the Insurance Company with a copy of the death certificate and proof the vehicle had been sold she would get a proportion of her premium back.

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15 Jul 2014 9:12 PM:

Having been an Insurance broker for over 40 years I can confirm that these incidents happen very regularly but it is usually the less experienced traveller that gets robbed. Stay on your guard if your car is British registered and if you book en route accommodation make sure they have secure parking. If you arrive by ferry do not go to the first petrol station to fill up more claims arise at this time the old ,you have a flat, scheme. Always ensure one person is in the car should you take a toilet break or walk the dog. We will not stop travelling to our second home in Spain but hunger and the call for a loo will not take our guard down as last year.

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Thread: Spanish motorway robberies on british tourist etc

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15 Jul 2014 7:52 PM:

We traveled from Santander to Nerja last November which we have done for the last three years. We altered our route to travel through Madrid instead of the M50. There was a serious accident so we were held up in traffic for quite sometime. Eventually when the traffic was going nowhere we needed food and toilet break. We saw a MacDonald's sign so pulled into the carpark it was huge we wondered why only one car in there but the lorry park above it was very full.We both went into order the food another car arrived and parked next to ours so close we would not have been able to open the doors. I ran outside as I suspected something was not quite right and our Labrador was asleep in the boot area.Two eastern European males emerged from the car with a woman I  got the dog out she asked me his name in Spanish I pretended not to understand. They then used their mobile to ring someone in the nearby petrol station we saw them waving to someone another woman appeared by this time my husband came out with the food the two men hung around the car we ate our awful food in the car the woman spoke to us in Spanish

 trying to distract us we acted numb. We will not travel through Madrid again they followed us from the parking area but as the traffic was still only moving slowly they were stuck well behind us. We were a bit afraid but just continued our journey. This year we will give Madrid a wide berth.

 

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