In order to unlock a Samsung Galaxy Europa i5500 first of all take the SIM out of the phone.

Using the numeric key pad enter the following code

*2767*3855#

Please note that this restores the phone to a factory reset function at which point no network is permanently pocked in.  It also means that any data stored on the phone will be lost so it is worth backing up before you do this.

My family and I went to Holywell Bay Fun Park in July 2011.  I had seen some reviews about the park but some of them weren’t too flattering.  It is free to enter the park which is nice as there are so many places which would charge simply for entering.  The park works on the basis of tokens.  You buy tokens in the central shop and use the tokens for the rides you are interested in.  For instance, we were interested in the adventure golf which was 8 tokens for each player and the tokens cost £0.50 each so £4 per person for a round of golf was not bad as far as I was concerned.  The adventure golf course is well maintained and gave us an hour of fun.

There are plenty of other rides and attractions.  The go karts were great fun and so too was the maze.  We were in the maze for nearly 20mins so it’s not too easy!

We ate at the park diner which was modelled on an american diner.  The food was good and the prices weren’t too bad either.

All in all we had a great day out at Holywell Bay and felt that the prices weren’t too bad either for a family of four.  I would recommend it and will probably go again if we go down to Cornwall in 2012.  I would also recommend going down to the beach once you have finished at the fun park as it’s a really great beach with plenty of space for everyone.

I was on holiday recently and overheard a couple saying that there seemed to be a lot of irish gypsies on holiday in the resort.  The man said to his partner ‘that you could spot them a mile off.’

If that man can spot them a mile off what is it he sees that I don’t?  How do you spot a gypsy?

I’ve had three calls now from a company who introduce themselves as the Business Directory.  They start of the conversation reminding me of my application to be in their directory which I made approximately a year ago.  They then tend to go on to give me statistics of how many key words I have and how those key words are clearly working because they have driven x amount of impressions to my website.

The operator sounds very convincing up to this point but then tells me that I signed up for a two year directory listing and that I decided to pay half of the £199 fee in year one and now it is time to pay the other half.  Naturally they are ready to take payment over the phone via credit card. 

The thing is, I would never pay that amount of money for a directory listing.  These people even tell me when I supposedly paid them the first instalment (which I didn’t) so they are very convincing. 

I’ve tried to get as much information out of them as possible but they always call via a withheld number and when I start asking too many questions they tell me that they will have to get back to me.  This is clearly fraud so please watch out for these calls.