Posts by GJC

Actually a closer translation of "Fiskarnas Vänners Gata" would be The Fishermen's Friends Street. Knowing that the Scandinavians have a special salty licorice (salmiak) version of the throat lozenge of that name, I suspect the street name is a secret attempt by the marketing department of the Fleetwood based company to advertise their menthol throat lozenges.

There was also the gotcha that meant using a ferry's own base station can be charged at rest of the world rates as, despite being in the EU (between, say, Dover and Calais), the base station may be registered out of the EU, such as in Norway. I got caught a couple of years ago switching on data roaming while docking at Calais and burned through £20 in a very short time. This was with O2 and I expect the same still applies (also with Giffgaff and probably all the other providers).