3 euros ? The place we use in Alvor was 1 euro, until last autumn when they outrageously upped it to 1.50.
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[Misc] Retirement
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Seagull58
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Not for a pint surely? Must have been a half or a bottle. I can get a pint of Sagres for 2 euros during the 6 hours of happy hour.
Dave the OAP
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I am loving it!!!!!!
Nope, a pint. Never understood how they did it but last year our driver explained they had some kind of deal with the brewery based on volume.
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Weststander
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Stop grizzling!My local host ordered bear pate for me in a traditional restaurant... I wouldn't recommend it
This is one of my favourite threads on NSC.
My retirement date is any time up to 12 years away - and it won't be beyond that.
It's all about boosting my pension pot for now - but if a redundancy comes my way, the stress and misery of job interviews may well be a "pleasure" I decline in favour of early retirement.
This thread fills me with optimism.
My retirement date is any time up to 12 years away - and it won't be beyond that.
It's all about boosting my pension pot for now - but if a redundancy comes my way, the stress and misery of job interviews may well be a "pleasure" I decline in favour of early retirement.
This thread fills me with optimism.
Good plan…..I wasn’t intending to stop as early as I did but when the opportunity came…….
12 days until the budget and I'm getting really worried about how much meddling Hunt will do with pension drawdown rules ( I think anything here will be longer term and not in the next year - in which case I'll be alright, Jack ), and state retirement age ( I think there's a reasonable chance he'll chain me to the desk for an extra year, but we'll see ).
Hopefully I'll be happy after the budget, not mightily cheesed off.
Hopefully I'll be happy after the budget, not mightily cheesed off.
I doubt he’ll do anything to pee off those planning retirement in the next few years.
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I always found that being in a hotel on your own after, if you're lucky, being 'entertained' for dinner when you're completely knackered and still trying to remain 'professional' wasn't very glamorous at all. When I was younger, if there were a couple of you (or even better a few) you could keep yourselves amused. I even did a couple of 4/5 day business 'cruises' at sea where it was DJs for dinner (very James Bond)
I didn't have kids until I was 35 and by then, I'd had enough and wanted to be there to see the kids in the morning and be home for dinner. I never took roles that required significant travel and probably only travelled a dozen times in the next 15 years and never more than a couple of nights. I was renowned for it and had the nickname 'The Olympic Flame' at a few companies because I never went out
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Doonhamer7
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- Jun 17, 2016
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to start with it does feel glamorous but it just becomes a soul sucker. I’ve been too many countries and seen nothing except hotel /office. jet lagged kills when you’ve early meetings after crap flight. It can be very lonely in a hotel on your own. You’re away from family and friends. You miss games at Amex. When I‘ve been to the states I come back feeling ‘poisoned’ by the too sweet / too salty food, in the Middle East you stink of smoke (not banned in bars). And the whole travel of getting to airport, queuing through security, queuing at immigration, taxi etc etc
Weststander
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Their diet (away from a minority of skinny obsessives in California and the North East cities) is shocking. Half way through hols in the US, I’ve abandoned the grease/salt for healthy options.
um bongo molongo
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That is a fantastic nickname that I shall be stealingI always found that being in a hotel on your own after, if you're lucky, being 'entertained' for dinner when you're completely knackered and still trying to remain 'professional' wasn't very glamorous at all. When I was younger, if there were a couple of you (or even better a few) you could keep yourselves amused. I even did a couple of 4/5 day business 'cruises' at sea where it was DJs for dinner (very James Bond)
I didn't have kids until I was 35 and by then, I'd had enough and wanted to be there to see the kids in the morning and be home for dinner. I never took roles that required significant travel and probably only travelled a dozen times in the next 15 years and never more than a couple of nights. I was renowned for it and had the nickname 'The Olympic Flame' at a few companies because I never went out
State pension top-up deadline has been extended
State pension: Deadline extended for National Insurance top-ups
People now have until the end of July to plug gaps in their National Insurance record from 2006 to 2016.
www.bbc.co.uk
Good news.State pension top-up deadline has been extended
State pension: Deadline extended for National Insurance top-ups
People now have until the end of July to plug gaps in their National Insurance record from 2006 to 2016.www.bbc.co.uk
I actually wonder how much the 35 years requirement is set in stone for eternity.
Surely Hunt isn't planning to up it to 37, 38 or even 40 years for some of those still working ?
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Maybe, as Spring arrives, we could use this forum to post walks / get togethers?
- Feb 22, 2014
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Gotta hand it to the French. They are striking over there because their Government want to increase the retirement age to 64! I do admire them.
Or to post popular daytime TV programmes, Daily Mail articles and gardening tips.
Thunder Bolt
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And they get higher pensions than us.