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• Ciao time

  May 11, 2010 @ 6:57 am | by Conor Pope

  Good morning from what might just be the best campsite in Europe. It’s got more than a dozen restaurants, two shopping streets, two huge pool complexes, a lazy river, a huge beach front, Venice on its doorstep and a supermarket that sells litre bottles of Nero d’Avalo sicillian wine for less than three quid. Now, if only the poxy rain would stop – it’s making the place feel like Courtown in the 1970s – and the ash cloud would stop closing airports all over the place it’s making me feel nervous.

• Cashback and no cash at all

  May 7, 2010 @ 1:25 pm | by Conor Pope

  Was in Boots on Grafton St this morning and asked for cashback on my Laser card? They don’t do cashback, I was told. Why not? Sales assistant shrugged and said she didn’t have a clue. Anyone know why a retailer the size of Boots wouldn’t offer a consumer friendly service like this?

  Speaking of consumer friendly, I then went across to the good people in Brown Thomas to see if they could help me out. I recently lost a small but crucial part of a pair of sunglasses (the curvy, rubbery bit that slips onto the arm of the glasses). The staff member went off and found me a matching curvy bit. And the charge? Nothing at all.