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After nearly 20 years of being their client & receiving good (& fairly constant) reception, I have just spent three months with limited service & POOR after sales service to boot. I am now looking around for a company that supplies a far better service & one that includes 'The Golf Channel' &...

I have received notification this morning that The British Ambassador will be visiting the North Coast in late June. All British Ex-Pats & their spouses are invited to a 'get-together' to meet Mr. Fisher on Thursday 28th June at Las Plamas (I think that should be Las Palmas) in Luis Ginebra...

I (& I assume a few others known to the British Embassy) received the following invitation late last week: Dear all, I’ll be visiting Puerto Plata on Monday 19th and would like to take this opportunity to invite some British friends to meet me and Mendez for a Christmas drink. I will also...

LIVING is perhaps the wrong forum but then on the other hand (due to the way she lived her life) there really is no other forum for her!! Today would have been the 68th Birthday of Lambada (Ginnie aka "She Who Must be Obeyed"). Happy Birthday girl from all of us who miss the vibrancy of you...

"They shall grow not old, as we who are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them". My personal thanks to ALL (no matter what country, which service, what religion, what persuasion) who fell for the...

My apologies to all who have been waiting for this information but processing the death of an Ex-Pat loved one in this country can be a little time consuming .................... AND frustrating.:ermm: ;) :surprised Thanks to some pretty nifty footwork by some really switched on friends last...

In a recent thread in the Santo Domingo Forum closed before I could respond to Africaida (whose legitimate post was subsequently deleted) I was unable to post the following. As it is pertinent to that thread, I feel I have to start a new thread so that "some might be able to learn something from...

All you golfers bemoaning bad backs, aching legs, tired limbs, sore hips etc., etc., etc ............ Read these threads & ENVY! :surprised :cheeky: I wish I could get a follow through like that!! Bags him for my team in next years DR1 North Coast Charity tourneo!! :pirate: One-legged star...

During recent communication with the Consulate section of the British Embassy in Santo Domingo on other matters, I was asked if I would draw British Ex-Pats attention to the following 'Registration' service. Times being how they are at present ........... now might not be a bad time to actually...

I have just received the news of the unfortunate death this morning of the Professional at Playa Dorada course - Johny Polanco. Details are extremely sketchy at the moment but I will try to update as the day goes on. It would appear that he fell down some steps in his house & cracked his head...

For what it is worth & should anyone have the interest to watch, there is to be a charity Telethon on behalf of Integracion Juvenil this coming Friday (28th). The telethon will be on channels 3 & 9 & will be screened from the TV studios of Musa's here in Puerto Plata between the hours of 17.00...

Is there anyone out there in cyberland who does a copy service of music on tape to a CD?? I have a number of tapes from the 80's/90's that I would like to put on to disc (& then also on to my computer) plus a few tapes of the Male Voice Choir I used to be a member of in the UK. If there is...

I am in need of a golfer from the US who is coming down to the Puerto Plata area with his/her clubs, to receive & bring down for me a 3 & 5 wood that I wish to order. I know I could organise this through my postal forwarding system (& WILL if I have to) but I am concerned as to the state the...

A message saying HACKED comes up on the screen & might cause harm to your computer. I am doing a check on mine now just to be certain I was not infected!! ~ Grahame.

Quote We are on holiday in Playa Dorada first two weeks in September and now feel we would like to get married when we are there. Unfortunately it could not involve the Roman Catholic Church, but we need to have a religious rather than a civil ceremony, we are both Church of Scotland but would...

A friend & good contact of mine has acquired (not sure if that means bought, begged stole or borrowed) 3 chest protectors & 3 sets of shin guards which he is donating to a charity down here. Is there anyone due down to the North Coast within the next 3 - 8 weeks that is travelling light enough...

Here is a bit of advice to would-be David Bailey?s (renowned photographer?) ? DON?T snap suggestive pictures of your ?girly conquests? whilst here on holiday ? even MORE so if you live or intend living here!! An internet contact of mine who has visited the country on many occasions did just...

Attn all golfers. (or other naturally kind hearted souls!!). About 5 months ago I was approached by a Dominican Golfing Pro at one of the courses here on the north coast asking if I could help him get a visa to England. After a bit of investigation I found it was because he wanted to improve...

My Anna - How SEXIST of you.:pirate: :chinese: :cheeky: :tired: Barring males from responding or even contributing to a thread posted on DR1. If I might say so, it is also very demeaning to your fellow 'ladies' to suggest they need a thread that a males are not allowed to contribute to...

I had thought of putting this post in the 'LIVING' forum, but then some might have questioned that. It COULD have gone in the 'CLOWN BIN' forum I suppose, but then who would call this person a clown (other than me when we're mucking about on the golf course??) The Old Man of Santiago is yet...