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It an Acer Travel Mate 3270. Anyone know any good computer shops? (i.e reasonably priced and friendly, my OH isn't the most technically minded and I'm leaving in the next few days so won't be able to go with him, not that I'm Bill Gates :p) I think it will depend on price what kind of charger...

Thanks French Jurist. I didn't even think to try mercadolibre. Sorry I do mean charger- I always forget i'm typing for an international audience here not chatting down the pub! :)

Hey! My OH's laptop plug has stopped working and is in the market for a new one. Does anyone know how much he should expect to pay? I saw one website based here that has ones listed around 60 US Dollars. His Laptop originally came from south africa so when he brought it to Ireland he...

I'm here with my OH from home but this reminded me of when we moved into the house we are in now. We live with 3 guys. For ages they keep coming up to me saying things like...oh we bought more washing up liquid....we bought this mop etc. After a while I realised that even though I didn't know...

My OH and I were very worried about this. Never met our landlord at all and in Ireland it is the norm to never get all your deposit back. They ALWAYS find something to screw you with. In all my years renting in Dublin I only got my deposit back in full once. So we had pretty much written our...

Just want to say for anyone reading this that is thinking of coming over. Yes some people have culture shock but people aren't lying about how difficult life is here. If you blame all the complaints on culture shock that is just lying to yourself. Inflation is bad. The streets are broken...

NEVER i repeat never try to watch football there. I'll never stop having nightmares about trying to watch an ireland match there while they played the new Pearl Jam Album on repeat. They also like to rip people off a bit. :rolleyes: If your in the area, Sugar would probaly be best.

Hi all! Has anyone pawned anything here/sold it to a shop? Also does anyone know of anywhere that would buy second hand clothes? I have an expensive ski jacket that I think might be worth something. Also stuff like a sealed designer bottle of perfume? I realise that kind of stuff might...

Hey! If you dig around the newcomers section going back a month or two you will find a lot of advice. The advice is relative to your age etc but I’ll assume you’re under 30. My advice to you would be to save enough money to live for the year taking into consideration- rent, travel, nights out...

Definitly some or most of the prices are off-unless they've changed again since i went outside yesterday. even for other cities in Europe i would be familiar with they didn't seem right.

I’ve posted a few responses to newcomers on here before but I’ll share a bit of my experience with you. Recent college grad has great idea to move to argentina. Reads forums and countless blogs and other sites and thinks to herself -great! I ignored any people complaining because I said to...

hey just like to add to this that we watched the Champions league final in Sugar the other day. it's the most success we've had in a bar here for football-sound and everything!! the staff are friendly. bit like a cave but that doesn't matter i guess. so i would recommend sugar. stay away...

i completely agree with this. How can an innocent comment result in all this! I feel that i have some thing to offer this site as my experience might be different to some. From now on i'll only post solid advice. It's not worth being attacked by the people on here who seem so hell-bent on...

I am not going to get into an argument with you about ‘free to air‘. I originally posted something that I thought the OP might find vaguely interesting (that Oprah isn’t known here) and then I made a some what joking/slightly exaggerated claim that I was ‘shocked as I thought every one in the...

I have many European friends who are well aware of who she is and I have read that the show is actually available in over 100 countries in the world which i assume can't all be english speaking. As i am bored I went and found the link...

I once was telling a story about something i had seen on oprah to some argentines and they hadn't a clue what i was taking about! I don't think she exists down here! (which is shocking as i had assumed that everyone in the world knew who oprah was!) I'm not from the U.S and yet she is such a...

I haven’t been here as long as some others and I am leaving soon enough but when I’ve decisions to make I usually use this method: Make a list but an entirely honest list. The reasons why you would stay here verses the reasons that you would go back. Have the reasons you came in the first...

I happened to be hung over one morning in SanTelmo and really wanted a coffee. I couldn’t find one! I walked around for 20 minutes before giving up! That’s never happened to me anywhere else in the city. It’s very nice otherwise though.

I dont mind spanish commentary! Just not music over the top, it's like watching a best of goals from the season compilation for 90 mins. execpt much less exciting.....

This is my last ditch attempt before giving up on BA ‘bars’ all together. Now, does ANYONE know of a bar that shows premiership football with the sound on!!!! We’ve tried all the usual suspects. The two most disappointing: Gibraltar (my greatest hope) Also no for the Alamo who...