Everywhere I turn over the last week whenever Ryanair is mentioned, up pops the topic, “Ryanair to charge to use the loo! What do I think? ” The aviation marketing guru of www.Simpliflying.com beggars the question on www.LinkedIn.com; “Is this good PR or bad marketing?” Well, it certainly has shaken the network of Ryanair’s frequent…
Author: Rosie Reay
Ebro Voice is the blog of author Rosie Reay to compliment her love of travel, languages, books and authors, history, research, local legends, news bits and bobs
, trends, reviews and other geographical and environmental information on this lovely L'Ampolla coastline, Ebro river valley and Ebro delta in Catalonia, almost midway between Barcelona and Valencia in Northeast Spain. There is a serious side to her research in promoting not only local business enterprises but her insatiable interest in the marketing, branding and etymology of global company and product names
Victorian Bushfire Appeal 2009
181, at time of writing, have lost their lives. Others have lost everything -they have nothing, absolutely nothing. All their savings everything they owned,were tied up in their homes,. Families have been torn apart in death and loss, in this horrendous twist of forest fires and alledged arson. It is like the Australian Prime Minister…
Vibrant reading, straight talking, motivation, results
Steve Miller is just the sort of mentor everyone needs in today’ s world. Everyday you open the paper or switch on the telly and the news is depressing. Crisis, closures, financial ruin, re-possessions, cost of living hiking up higher and higher coupled with an awful exchange rate of the sterling to the Euro if…
Warm up your day!Book a bargain flight before midnight, tonight on EasyJet
Warm up your cold fingers and nab yourself a 25% discounted flight on:www.easyjet.com They declare “25% off every seat, every route every day on flights from 1st March to 30th June”. This is a double whammy as they include Easter and UK School Half-term holidays. An opportunity not to be missed in these Crisis times….
Baushaus and Chocolate -Reus Tarragona
Yesterday, saw us driving up to Reus Airport with the Mediterranean sun burning the cheeks of hubby dear, while I fought to keep the car in the correct lane on the AP7 motorway and avoid high-sided juggernauts, swaying precariously as they were battered by these mountain winds. Boy oh boy, those crosswinds can be scary!…
A Saturday in November
Lovely clear sunny Saturday and the wind at a comfortable calm, but the beauty of the day is interrupted with the peppered sound of hunting guns ..”Run Rabbit run..” This is a busy time for all who live on, or farm in the Lower Ebro Valley. Wherever you go you will see on a weekend…
Affordable, self-catering holidays in Tiveyns where the garden dips its toes into the wonderful Ebro River.
You won’t find better prices anywhere else along the Ebro River. These introductory prices won’t last for ever. The Catfish season starts ‘hotting’ up around the 15th March and the River guides book up early in “catfish on the table ‘ season (if anyone of you recall the song). Besides, now is the time to…
Fresia’s Group carboot sale is on in El Perello -Sunday 28th September08
Please support the Fresia group´s carboot Autumn sale. The venue: outside Proxim store in the village of el Perello ( just off the N340). Sellers entrance fees: Cars = 5 euros; Cars and trailers = 7 euros; and Vans = 7 euros Set up time for stalls: 08:30 Open for the crowd rush : 09:30 – 2.00pm They are…
Down, but not out! The lady “bodge-it” lives on.
Last night the heavens opened its storm drains across the Lower Ebro Valley. Boy did we receive some rain! Lovely for the olives and the mandarin groves, but not for pelting down on our finca´s old flat roof. Our roofer, could not have been called back to the UK at a worse time, but it…
What have you been doing today?
If you knew me in back in UK or South Africa would you would just not believe what I have been doing today! In fact I am still “gob smacked” myself. I still don´t believe it! …picking up garden snails….. No, not because of any concern for my plants or the eco-balance in my overgrown,…