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Bank of Ireland Allied Irish Banks vs

that the banking system in Ireland, speaking of customer service is painful is not new but in this short post I'll try to give you a concrete example of my recent experience with two banks in particular: BOI (Bank of Ireland) and AIB (Allied Irish Banks). This post could easily fall within the theme " Services in Dublin."

I was talking about customer service as painful, if you are new in the land of Ireland or you were reading from outside the island green, compared with any other service seen elsewhere (Italy and Spain) I can say that simply makes me laugh ( if not angry). Personally I find the critical point for online banking or what should be one.

A bank such as Bank of Ireland which boasts and boasts having the "Best of the Online Banking Year "and somehow got bought I do not know what agreements clearly presents its online banking page with the following options: * Display of

Statement (movements in and out) *
Payments (transfer funds to another account )
* Standing Orders and Direct Debits (Enabling systematic payments to third parties, such as to pay rent on a monthly basis, etc..)
* Options to activate Mortgage (Mortgage) Loans (loans) or Savings Account (Savings Account)

Everything looks great until you realize that apart from the first point, all the others can not be used without prior visit to the branch or telefondando customer service which will then process the request with the paper form.

online banking a couple of short balls, the lords of BOI using a trivial interface internet that may have built my cousin, for a stupid management of all things that need to be approved first by the individual in the bank, actually a method to avoid ripping the same action after the first time but certainly not a way to speed up procedures at the last moment!

Among other things at the level of courtesy, I noticed quite a degree of professionalism worthy of the third world (and I do not want the third world, please) with people who go berserk as soon as it insists on more than twice on same point and allow themselves to say that if you do not understand the pronunciation mumbles and demolishes the English language like they do. But let

another example: AIB or Allied Irish Banks. This is a bank with which I, in desperation, opened a new account after seeing the type of services it offers. Nothing sensational, it reminds me very much that I had with the Italian Credit (now UniCredit Bank) in Italy at university. I'm talking about 8 years ago. Yet this system did

codes on a sheet of paper (to be replaced years by other European banks with electronic token type) and secret numbers to be recalled is efficient! On the site it is possible to enable payments www.aib.ie at the time (using a code on the popular package), activate a Saving Account (another codicil and street), turn on a mortgage, a loan no matter what (whereas sometimes for certain products require the signature of a document but only in special cases).

The AIB Phone Banking is just amazingly simple, you enter two codes match, you say who you are and answer a few trivial question but personnel and proceed with the changes.

Yesterday I had to change the address associated with my account, I call the AIB Phone Banking and proceed as follows:

* Enter the code when prompted
* ask to speak with opertore
* After a few seconds I wonder
* I personally would like to change the address
* I * I
old address new address
* Made

It took me 8 minutes net!

then calls BOI:

* ask * Operator
After a few seconds talking with operator
* I * I want to change address Solutions
available
2 * Print the online application from the site, fill it and send it in branch (a week schedule ?)
* Or go into my branch and fill them in the form (schedule 1 hour off from work)
* Question: But that phone banking is I'm here? I call it pure and banal information service, hopefully giving him an award also for this!

Decisione finale: Chiudo il mio account Bank of Ireland come già avevo in mente di fare così saranno più felici in tempi come questi di perdere un altro cliente!

When Is The Gina Sale

Tuscany, Troy and Dublin What to do in Dublin

Non mi sono bevuto il cervello, nonostante data le settimanella che mi si prospetta tra cambio di casa, chiusura quarto a lavoro e volo a fine settimana in Spagna per il meritato riposo ci sono vicino.

Il titolo del post non ha carattere Joyceiano, ne vuole copiare lo stile di alcuni post di andima , ma è semplicemente la summa delle parole che stanno portando più traffico sul blog presente.

Guardando i rapporti Analytics di questo mese infatti I find that the top search queries from Google lead me up for the term "Tuscan tourists in Dublin" and the article that comes out is my negative review of the restaurant Baccaro, but praised by many people I know ( tastes are tastes).

The most interesting thing though is that those looking for this word is always the same person or persons and I do not see how changing the percentage of new visitors coming from it. It 'so easy to deduce that some of you out there know that there are no bookmarks or feeds, or even the sympathetic system implemented recently by Blogger and already used by the legendary andima that allows you to have the update of the blog in real time by a click in the upper right "faithful readers".

As for the "sluts in dublin" not only did not expect there was quite a volume of research in relation to the issue online, but I have to thank Bacchus if in the post " Services in Dublin" (very appropriate I would say) many people see off the illusion of finding it a little "smaialeccio" (at Abatantuono).

Finally, and thank God, at least guesses Google indexing more logical and I am a decent place to "live in Dublin so I end up on the inside back but at least one of the top positions and between the home page of the blog.

I just wanted to share this discovery with you before going to pack everything for the move. Regards.

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Another point to be developed under the theme "Living in Dublin " is about what to do in your free time in Dublin. I'll try to add a list of things that come to mind, but I urge anyone who wants to do, to write other alternatives of interest

with the first place I can not go with what is the most popular in the Irish capital: the pub. I remember a nice post on the blog of andima Dublin where he joked about the monotony that I can only comment with a "it's all true."

The pub is in fact the institution here in Dublin, opens in the late morning and usually closes around midnight. It 's the place where locals usually socialize, celebrate, lunch and dinner on special occasions or weekend follows the sport matches etc.. Due to bad weather that accompanies us during 99% of the pub is a meeting place and protection from the weather, can take on characteristics of disco-pub, or maintain the more traditional features, then here is the famous historic pubs on recommended guides cities like the Cobblestone the or John Gogarty's Mullingan .

Dublin also offers several performances at the theater ' Abbey Theater, I personally I've never been there yet but I am referring to andima that in his post talks about it.

I cinema are three: the old UGC Cineworld in Parnell Street hours, very big and on different levels, the Savoy in O'Connell Street and the small Screen Cinema on the corner of Poolbeg Street. Then there are programming in the small cinema in Temple Bar is often inherent in alternative films or foreign production.

I are not many museums and indeed the only real museum I know of is the National Museum in Nassau Street, with free admission. There is also a Science Gallery on Pearse Street belonging to Trinity College where you ultimately trying to launch many new initiatives, exhibitions and tastings with age, but honestly I was never particularly attracted.

I shops are located primarily in the areas of Grafton Street and Harry Street for the city center, with the addition of large complex commercial Dundrum and Liffey Valley . Are open continuously from morning until 18:00 pm, extending until 20:00 on Thursdays.

For tourists however are to be added: The

Guinness factory, which I personally visited and that is also worth considering also the price of entry, the Jameson Distillery that I avoided after Having regard to the Guinness factory and the statue of dela Molly Malone on Grafton Street.

Always there for the tourists attractions like the City Sightseeing Bus running from O'Connell Street or the more typical Viking Boat, an amphibious vehicle that takes you anywhere in the city by land and water and the Dublin Ghost Bus that I own the courage to try, but it promises to let you experience a thrilling adventure ...

There are also a lot more interesting things to see out of town, perhaps taking a trip to Howth, Malahide or Dun Laoghaire and even the very popular hits in Wicklow or the Cliffs of Moher, or pointing to Northern Ireland to see the Giant Causway.

Last but not least, I would like to add suggestions on how to dress to come to Ireland . What comes from the fact that the data available to me, more and more people reach the blog by writing this kind of research on Google.

It 's important not to forget that Dublin is always raining. It 's a bit like saying "remember you must die" so always better to have an umbrella at hand because even with the sun grows stronger you never know ...

For the rest of the system works beautifully dressed in "onion" or you can easily remove layers to suit your needs. In the months from October to late February, have very low temperatures and then a nice down there is everything, but in enclosed spaces is hot as hell then follow the advice of the first. During the period April May June you have the best chance of good weather, and sunshine and less rainfall (summer would be the closest thing we have here).

During the period of July August September rains there have been over the last two years so do not be fooled, the move to an average temperature of 15-18 degrees but the sky is black and then let me put the sleeves are the most courageous.

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Weekend in Pisa and Lucca

Last weekend I took advantage of a cheap Ryanair flight for a trip home and just to Pisa, a city that I never had the opportunity to visit. I then took the opportunity to spend a day in Lucca also due to the proximity of the two great cities of Tuscany and ease of movement between them. But let's order:

Day December 5: Pisa

At 19:45 she left with Marta at a time from Dublin to Pisa. The beauty of this flight is due not only cost but also time that does not require to take holidays or days of business on Friday. The first note

fun comes as we are in the queue for boarding. After a few minutes late (who said Ryanair?) Someone cares to check the monitor for verifcare that there were no changes Boarding Gate e. .. ta daaa! The monitor displays the following words: Pisa 19:45 - Departed.

practiced according to the computer we were already in flight! Clearly there was a mistake since the whole crew was on the ground, in fact everything was settled between a laugh and the other is an operator that has come to open the gate.

"Ta ta daaaa" to the sound of jingle in Pisa with Ryanair landed fewer than 3 minutes early, we leave the plane and take a couple of things at a kiosk. Two biscuits and a bottle of water is our night snack, Martin pointed out to me the ticket: € 3.10 and we think we look in the air only cost 3 euro bottle of mineral.

The second note of significance is to be done for the moment when we got to wait for the bus that connects the downtown to the airport. The journey costs € 1.50, the last one is for midnight. During the wait, we are called by a couple of ladies of a certain age that inquires about the service. Speaking discover that two Welsh that would otherwise be inclined to take a taxi there and Martha and I offer to split the middle.

Now they smile and tell us "less evil, if there are two Italians sure do not try to trick us, you know that drivers here do ...", then Marta explains that the Italian are actually I and I try to make it clear that all the world over and that I did not know the area so I did not feel free "scam". In fact, the juice seemed to be that drivers routinely scrub Italians and foreigners. The thing I am sure it has a foundation but I liked the certainty with which the two Welsh they advertise their "cunning" in the matter.

few minutes later the bus finally arrives, I, Martha, and another group we go to the front door. Tickets are not sold on the ground since it was late at night, so we all bought from the driver who very kindly gave us information and tickets (not a cost-plus). After sitting there and I stamped and Martha hear the two ladies of the first laugh out loud, Marta I mention that the two were from behind and giggled happy because they were not able to pay. Well as always I was confirmed that it is the first hijacked to steal her purse snatcher if we give him the opportunity and that all good speeches that do end up having very different results when implemented in practice and not only applies to bad guys Italians but also for all other "poor" foreigners.


The journey by bus takes a few minutes, the airport of Pisa is glued to the center, 10 minutes after we go down to the station where he dropped the two women who tried to cling like leeches almost Marta and I head down ' Hotel Alessandro della Spina *** .

It closes in a fragrant and welcoming rooms of the hotel our first night in Pisa.

Day December 6: Lucca

Kindness is definitely a factor that you can not see in Pisa, asking anyone we will always smile ( andima hurt either), and clear and precise. And so we got with Marta, Saturday morning, information on how to reach the city of Lucca. The bus costs € 1.50 and switch via Crispi (near the train station), here you can also buy your ticket on board and the trip takes about 20-30 minutes of pleasant rustic Tuscan landscape. An important note to remember if you ever decide to follow the example: the bus is different from urban ones and blue, do not take a citizen who says "Porta a Lucca" because it is an area of \u200b\u200bPisa and I had committed the 'failure to take it (fortunately I asked the driver immediately after the start and I did not go too far on the way).

arrive in Lucca we immediately found a very useful map showing the city as a whole is marked with a red line the suggested route for a walk along the center. At this point you can decide to photograph and use the map below, or follow the path and is always in every new road map marked the same scaled-down version that vi continuerà a guidare lungo tutto il cammino.

La città ha un gusto puramente medioevale, mi ricorda molto da vicino la mia Catanzaro, fatta di stradine lastricate e viottoli splendidi che nascondono scorci stupendi da fotografare. I negozi sono tanti e di ottimo gusto, dai vestiti ai prodotti tipici fino ai negozietti per fare regali ricchi di quelle sciocchezze che attraggono tanto.

A pranzo abbiamo mangiato al ristorante " Antico Sigillo ", una locanda rustica che propone menu a prezzi molto interessanti e una buona scelta di primi piatti, secondi di pesce e carne e chiaramente dolci.



Il pranzo è costato circa 35 euro comprendendo vino della casa, acqua mineral, two main courses, dessert and two coffees.

The afternoon is spent walking more, including a photo and a shooting, passing through a square where he had organized a skating rink on the ice with lots of stalls selling all kinds of chocolate. All in a splendid Italian winter.

On the streets there were many families with children and the Christmas lights stood out as the evening descended. The feeling that we lived and that most impressed me is that Marta is the serenity, tranquility to the center of a chaotic winter Lucca, a normality that I was missing for some time.

The return bus leaves every hour to Pisa and 18:05 rieccoci li, stanchi ma contenti del successo della gita, di ritorno in hotel. In tarda serata poi abbiamo approfittato del fatto che in Italia i ristoranti sono aperti fino a tadi e dopo pennichella in hotel, abbiamo mangiato in una pizzeria vicina " Trattoria da Michele " in via Francesco Bonaini, che consiglio per la pizza, un pò meno per l'allegria.

Due pizze, antipasto di salsiccia di cinghiale e due birre medie mi sono costate 32 euro (follia!), peccato per il cameriere che aveva un musone lungo che non finiva mai.




Giorno 7 dicembre: Pisa

L'ultimo giorno di permanenza non è stato in realtà un giorno ma solo half a day before the afternoon flight with Ryanair.


Pisa is well known that it does not offer much in terms of public amenities. The most beautiful thing to see is that huge wedding favor which is the Piazza dei Miracoli with the complex that houses the leaning tower par excellence. Also note really demerit for all those who love moron smear the walls with their ideologies, thoughts, deeds and passions ... each wall in Pisa is a huge book containing everything. Marta has left us very badly and I could not confirm that this nice custom is repeated in several Italian cities. The suggestion is to buy a Smemoranda or what is used today for school diary and draw all the things that go through your head, take a page to his girlfriend for maybe without having to mess with spray cans and dirty places that have survived wars and real struggles, not those stupid ideology and pedantic!

After Photos from the typical moron who support the leaning tower, we walked along the Arno and then lunch is always being Bonaini but this time in another room nicer, so I waited 40 minutes and mixed fried fish!



At 17:00 we were in the queue for boarding and how good the Italian tradition when there half an hour to fly the friendly round of rises and makes up her mind the door to arrive earlier in the typical crowd for the seats desired by Ryanair that assigns them. And as always happens that the flight departs late so those that were scheduled for 17:30 hours as the boat moves to 17:50 and then all piled up to an hour.

But thank God everything changes once on board, fasten your seat, ready to take off and go back on it thinking maybe close your eyes for a while and catch our breath after two days' journey, but ... with Ryanair this is a luxury that you do not pay. Price not stated because of the flight are the millions of advertisements that bombard us from a very high volume and that blew up from the seat. But vediamoli in order:

- Fila for boarding: Miss trying to pass "Impros" (as they say in Calabrian dialect) tickets for the bus Terravision from Dublin airport in Dublin Centre. A real rip-off since the 747 and 748 are half price and have a service that I think best.
- Entry into the cabin : Starfish Rechargeable Calling Cards. Serving as a kick in the rear or chestnuts as the internet point in the center are two million pounds and cost for an international call.
- First 20 minutes : Bar and sandwiches. Not comment on the quality and especially the prices.
- After 45 minutes: Scratch card. If you want to be a millionaire now, or newlyweds Piersilvio at the suggestion of the Cavaliere or games with Ryanair.
- After 1 hour : Calendar Ryanair. The hostess of the famous company are what is called the employee must give their all to the company. All clear for charity ...
- After 1 hour 30 min. : Gadgets gift. I always expect to go by plane to buy the perfume.
- After 1 hour 45 min. : New mini-bar passage, which makes you want to put another roll of plastic.
- After 1 hour and 55 min. : Ridaje with Terravision ... not prendooooo!
- After 2 hours and 10 min. : Third step mini-bar (if it sees that its not sold) and most obviously should eat on board the aircraft just 15 minutes from landing to cost and quality!

So comes the communication of the third flight attendant, the other two were Italian, I do not know what nationality that starts with an accent sbiasciato "We're landing, turn off the lights bzzbzzzbzz this procedure if you want no light above your head bzbzbzbbzzz" for the series but with two Italian on board to talk to them was too much to ask?

Landing with a few minutes late but no horns and no announcement "another delayed flight from Ryanair ...