What Is The Best Web Browser?

I have had it with Windows Internet Explorer – too slow.

I have had it with Firefox – on average 500,000k commit size and slows my pc to a halt.

I am now trying Chrome and actually, it’s only using 50,000k commit and my pc is flying…

What do you use?  What else should I use or try?

Appreciate your feedback, thanks

We Are Moving Back To The UK

The tears in my last post were a quick realisation that we had to make a big decision.  In a positive and good way.

For us personally it was a difficult one, living a ten minute walk from the sea in a beautiful city like La Rochelle doesn’t get much better. The kids have made very close friends and are really settled, totally bilingual with zero accent. The daily markets, sunshine to match Monaco and amazing walks and runs by the coast really have made us very happy the past three years.

But with Ryanair playing with our flights, the ever decreasing euro and the fact we are busier than ever but unable to hire anyone here as our businesses are firmly in the UK, moving back has been making more and more sense recently.

Our businesses are growing fast, we need more support both from the business side and from family, we need to hire people and fix up an office, we need to go to the weekly conferences and meet-ups, enjoy beers with new friends and old ones too.  We need to kick ass. Hard.

So, as of December 2009, we are moving back to the UK, just North of London in leafy Hertfordshire.

It’s a great move for us, we get to live near my family again, near our good friends and importantly 45 mins from London on the train.  The kids will be able to move back to familiar classes with friends and we’ll be able to carry on as before.  Only this time, with our own independence, our future dictated by us.  Secretly we know that we are back for good, in a bloody positive way and we can’t wait!

See you all in December.

Today I cried

More than I can remember. My Mum held me.  I drank rum with my Dad, and finally saw the light.

It seems the dream is turning into growth.  Growth of Sylvie and I and our little family unit.  And not the end of a dream, the start of us kicking arse.

More soon.

We’ve had a big ride to get here, looks like the ride just started again, this time, we are coming faster and harder than ever.

You so knew we would. x

UPDATE!! No we are not expecting a baby, nor is anything up between Sylvie and I!!  We are all 100% fine, just needed to make a very very strong business decision.

No Email, No “Oops”, Ryanair To Fly To La Rochelle From Nov 29th

It seems people power may have worked, people power and the Chamber of Commerce.

Just confirmed with La Rochelle airport that the route from la Rochelle to Stansted is back on, starting from 29th November – the operator, Ryanair.

I bet those of you that booked cheap deals with them and had them cancelled are thrilled..no offers, no apologies, no thrills..

I still hope that Easyjet have that marketing meeting they promised to me in email, be good to see some competition on this route, which clearly is a money maker.  My email and their response below, send your email to paul @ easyjet.com (remove the blank space.)

Hi Dorota

Thanks for the response.

I live in La Rochelle, France and Easyjet fly here during the summer months.  Up until now, Ryanair have flown from La Rochelle to Stansted 3-4 times per week through-out the year.  I have just learned that they are pulling out of La Rochelle, Angouleme and Nantes airports between November and April.  I think there is a huge opportunity, I was once told that LR to STN was in the top ten busy routes on Ryanair and I have never ever been on a flight that isn’t full, and I have been on the plane during the dark depths of winter!

Given that Ryanair have now only one airport open serving SW France, I think if you set up a regular route from La Rochelle you would pick up an absolute steal.   La Rochelle is the 3rd most visited destination by tourists in France, all year around it is packed.  France is the most visited country in the world by tourists.  It must make sense.  I would love to Easyjet launch a marketing campaign to “save the route” – after all, Ryanair have a habit of doing that..!

I think any company taking up this route would simply be getting huge amount of sales – there are thousands of holiday rental homes in the region and as many that commute to the UK and Ireland.   I would also look at other routes from la Rochelle to European cities as the area is very affluent and is one of the richest cities in France.

Thanks

Kevin

Ryanair No Longer To Fly To La Rochelle, Nantes Or Angouleme Out Of Season

Those people that moved to France and commute are just about to hear a bombshell, our friends Ryanair who have been serving our local airports for years and years have just pulled out. Bang. No emails to those already booked, nothing, just pulled the plug. Ryanair stopped flying to La Rochelle, Nantes and Angouleme outside summer season.

So my parents who have booked in November and December, will “get a refund”, yet have not, at the time of writing even had en email confirming the route closure. Nor does it mention this anywhere on any other site as far as I can see.

I have confirmed with la Rochelle airport that Ryanair are no longer flying there between November and April nor are they flying to Nantes or Angouleme. The only airport they are going to fly to is Poitiers “out of season”. So those packed flights I have travelled on from La Rochelle to Stansted all year have clearly not been making any money. Yes, packed flights.

I have looked into it and I can get a train to Poitiers or even drive which is two hours each way or jump the train to Bordeaux..how about the rest of the regular commuters, what do you intend doing? What about the thousands of gites and small businesses in the region that rely on the English tourism?

I am shocked and wonder if this route cancellation will mean we will have to move back to Blighty or to the USA..

UPDATE: I have since found out that Ryanair are letting 850 people go from their operations and a travel insider has emailed me to tell me that Ryanair are in so much financial trouble they could be going bust. This is an unconfirmed rumour but would make a little sense as to why they are scrapping very busy flights.

Tags: angouleme, la rochelle, nantes, poitiers, ryanair