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Is it a hybrid ? There have been battery issues - have a look at some of the Toyota owner forums.

Evidence please ! Find me a P&O Carribean fly/cruise from the year 2000 costing less than £1500, taking inflation into account.

Personally I would look at P&O, 100% British cruisers, no tips added, or Princess, more cosmopolitan passenger mix. Buy the Princess Plus package for £50 pppd, and that covers tips, wifi and 15 alcoholic drinks a day, plus unlimited soft drinks.

In real terms, prices are cheaper than ever.

I'm sure they could, but I can see how UK growers could compete with Spanish and North African producers who do not need to heat their polytunnels. How many Brits would buy a UK lettuce if it cost £4 ?

If you are arriving by coach, you can ignore the embarkation time given to you.

The UK produces over 220,000 tonnes of lettuce a year ! But obviously it is uneconomic to produce it during the winter months, when the cost of heating the polytunnels would be prohibitive, even prior to recent increases.

True - I could have worded it better.

Ah, no age limit with Nationwide, just a £65 supplement.

Thank you, kind sir! Good to hear from you.

Why harsh ? Kusadasi is not a major cargo port. And there are plenty of ports far closer to the earthquake zone. I fully endorse your comments about donations. I assume that there have been appeals onTV and in the press in the US, the same as in the UK ?

If you are not going to drink £40 of alcohol a day, don't buy the package. Just use your obc to pay for any drinks you have.

One of the advantages of booking in the UK, is that the fare you see, is the fare you pay. No taxes or port charges are added.

Done what ?

Not that difficult to imagine. My wife and I just drank two bottles of an excellent Argentinian Malbec tonight.

Which is why I will never do a live blog !

Never had a problem mixing up side orders, or asking for double portions of veg. Could be diffucult if you want, say, duck a l'orange, without the orange sauce, as all the duck is prepared with the sauce. I supppose the sauce coukd be scrapped off !

Nationwide allow you to open an account, but you do not need to bank with them.

Not sure if I understand your rationale. All businesses need to maximise their profits. Put simply, that means increasing prices, or reducing costs. So, Harrods, Claridges etc increase prices, because their clientele do not care. Mass market companies, like P&O do not have that luxury, so they need to cut costs so as to still offer prices that are attractive to the mass market, but at the same time maintain their overall profitability . Therefore they have to reduce costs. Blimey, I'm going back in time to when I had to produce my annual departmental budget !

To be fair, I saw a TV programme recently where it was explained that the plastic wrapping on cucumbers massively extended the shelf life. Seems like a necessary evil. Broccoli is readily available in all our local supermarkets. Being controversial, why do you need cucumber and lettuce in February ? Eat seasonally.

We had a brief sojourn in Somerset in Milborne Port. Lovely 16th century cottage, although the bedroom ceiling collapsed on us the second week we were there !

Sounds a good deal, similar to Nationwide. Can you get the insurance even if you do not bank with Barclays ?

As I understand them, CC rules allow you to recommend trips, as long as you have actually been on them.

Great way of putting it. For us drinkers there is no complicated thought process at all !

If you are looking for a brand new car, the order lead times are pretty awful - six months seems to be pretty normal, unless you chance upon a cancelled order. So better to order sooner rather than later.