Does anyone have experience of how strictly Tui / Thomson apply the 5Kg cabin baggage rule? My cabin bag weighs 3Kg empty, so I can't bring a lot back! Do they weigh cabin luggage?
Flying from Bourgas. Thanks.

I think more people might come forward if the o/p were not so vague. It almost sounds like some kind of scam to lure people. I'm not saying it is, but people are rightly wary of making contact with people who profess to "help" with all kinds of things these days.

Given the government backed guarantee from the FSCS, if it were true that banks "own" your money, it would only be a technicality, and not relevant to any realistic scenario (I discount the possibility of sovereign debt wipeout or political revolution). I would rather trust stable, traditi...

Factual update: the FSCS protects up to £85,000 per bank in the UK. As long as you don't have various bank accounts with banks which are related to each other the £85k protection is valid for each and every bank account you may have. I really don't think the present UK economy compares at all with t...

Beg to differ: deposits of up to £75k (from memory) are protected from failing banks by statute in the UK; similar sums are protected in the EU.
But I don't want to take the thread off track with opinions about Crypto World.

Thanks guys. :D Reg, I hope you're not going to get stung with bitcoin; I am far from alone in thinking it's essentially just a brilliant confidence trick wrapped up in technobabble and will one day crash leaving lots of people with worthless cybermoney. Oldtimer, thanks for your recommendation and ...

Thanks Truckyboy, sorry I picked yours up late. I had an account with Bulbank, long before it was part of Unicredit. From what you say it seems to have picked itself up, though maybe they have a higher number of English speaking staff in seaside resorts. The branch in Varna had almost nobody who spo...

Hi bullador, it's been a while! I don't use this site much these days being as we've got things pretty much sorted after 12 years (famous last words). We won't be coming to live permanently but we do enjoy our twice-a-year visits including diversions en route due to variable itineraries from UK. We ...

Thank you! I did try DSK for a while but the queues were always immense and hardly anyone on the staff spoke a word of English. Postbank sounds worth looking into though; I don't have or need any standing orders at the moment.
Cheers!

With the closing of my usual branches of Pro Credit Bank in Varna so you now have to travel to the Western Industrial Zone to speak to an actual person, I reckon it's time to change banks. I made a few enquiries when we were out there, but nothing came of it: they either wanted monthly fees, didn't ...