Did you know that when out walking the #ErsRemovals #Removalshounds in the countryside we often collect rubbish and broken glass we find and safely dispose of it This weekend alone we have collected 3 bags of rubbish
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So it is that time of year ago only 15 days of 2023 left and less than 10 days until Christmas
Merry Christmas and a happy new year everyone So it is also an ideal time to review 2023 from the ERS Removal services point of view, as with any year it has had it's ups and downs The obvious down is of course the Panel van breaking down and the issues that caused (us not to our customers as we had back up plans we could put in place ) Now the ups/Highlights Well the first one is back in January we won a place in the SBS community ( Theo Paphitis ( the one from Dragons den ) Which literally took us years of trying to win which made the win all the more sweet, and the Tweet we won with has over 10K in views which is our best preforming tweet ever , Plus we also Hosted one #Sbswinnershour Talking of hosting networking hours on Twitter it is now 1 full year that (Ashley) we have been one of the host of #NetworkwithThrive And still talking of Twitter , we have now over 5800 followers on Twitter/X Our Youtube channel has hit 150 subscribers As you might know we applied with the office of Traffic commissioner to expand our van operators licence (international) from 1 van to 2 vans and it was approved It has been a strange year at points with us having crews flying at various stages from Almeria Alicante and Valencia at points And Leeds as well Plus for the first time ever we sent a van from Hull to Eurooport which even when we where based in Hull we never did but the outbound leg of that trip was to the UK then to the Netherlands so made sense We also this year have been to Belguim with a load from Garrucha Spain Spain has over 60000km of trails
and thats just the proper ones (Eg routes dedicated as a trail ) Never mind all the kms of walkable routes along river bed and the likes and routes that follow roads and stuff #Turre in the #Spanish region of #Andalusia in the province of #almeria is a small but lovely little typical Spanish town Here we are walking from the new park to the 5 spouts of the fountain (one of the reasons the #Moors founded Turre where they did when they were kicked out of #Mojacar ) Sorry if I was walking a tad quick ? (if so let me know so can alter my pace in the future )(As was the first time filmed with my new body harness on ) #Spain #JoysofSpain and it was filmed during the Seista period hence been so quiet
So the #ERSRemovals van left the ERS Base in Spain yesterday on its latest trip from Spain to the UK , but this trip is a little different
Why ? Well the Van will on Sunday be boarding the Hull to Europoort ferry to the Netherlands as it is heading to load in Den Helder That will take the number of countries that we have moved people to or from in our years of opperations to 12 England Wales Scotland Ireland Spain Holland France Italy Switzerland Spain Belgium Germany and Travelled as of Monday via 16 ports Some Facts about Spain
Lets start with the easy ones you will know Population 47.42 Million Capital Madrid Head of State : King Felipe 6th of Spain Head of Government: Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (also called President of the Government ) Currency : Euro Official Language : Spanish (Casttillan ) plus Catalan (in the Catalonia region (Eg Barcelona ) Galician and Basque Main police force : Guardia Civil and Polica National (Plus most towns have Polica Local (and some regions like Catalan have the Mossos D' Esquarda ) Spain is the 2nd most visited country in Europe 2nd only to France Spain has the most high speed rail tracks by miles in Europe and is only 2nd in the world behind China, but per capita head Spain with 47.42 million people to Chinas Billion plus Spain has the most miles of High speed track per person And talking of Railways Spain has in use various Rail Gauges from 1 metre narrow gauge in Bilbo and that area (as part the regional commuter rail ) to Standard Gauge eg the high speed rail to the wide gauge Iberian Gauge tracks (plus Trams on their gauge ) The longest Motorway in Europe is in Spain to with the Autovia 7 (and the Ap7 ) at 1300 km / 810 miles Spain is home to 48 Unesco World Heritage sites Which includes the worlds oldest still in operation light house the tower of Hercules in Coruna (Galicia ) built by the Romans in 2nd century AD and standing at 57 metres / 187 feet Did you know that while it is Mothers day in the UK
In Spain it is Fathers day With 2022 coming to a close and at the time of writing this it been like 6 days to Christmas , I thought it would be a good point to look back at 2022 and review what has been going on here at ERS Removal services ltd
And 2022 has been an eventful year Where to start , and these are in no set order : 1:Well for one we have done our longest trip in terms of both miles and furthest north in 2022 with the van doing an Isle of Lewis Scotland load to Baza Spain which meant also 2 new ports that the van shipped via (port of Ullapool and Stornaway ) On the same trip the van also went to load in Germany 2: we did our largest job from the Republic of Ireland with the van going over to collect a load from their to Spain , that went into storage with us for a bit before onward delivery This also meant 2 new ports the van went via : Fishguard and Rosscoff making it 4 new ports this year the van has transited via (we have done something like 33 ferry crossings this year ) 3: We where granted our Standard international Operators Licence 4: Ashley passed his Transport manager Cpc Tests 5: we increased how much storage we can offer our customers 6: we now have done over 150 plus customs process 7 : we also added a Tors service to our offerings of Services, and talking off storage , we have as a result of our increased capacity, we have also stored the highest amount of peoples belongings in a year , we ever have 8: We also this year joined Tik Tok 9: on a sad note we also this year lost our beloved Shaggy 10: and on a sad note (but this one has a happier ending (we kinda ) let me explain , while out walking Nelson earlier this year we found 3 puppies dumped in a drainage channel , we adopted one of them our Lucy and her brother and sister are still with Paws Patas awaiting their forever homes 11: Our Youtube channel has hit over 250 hours of views and 81 subscribers 12: We have done 15 full trips on our Spain to UK back to Spain routes and several Spain to France routes 13: and our Twitter has passed 5100 plus followers , plus I have guest hosted Networking with Thrive twice this year (and have been offered a regular slot to host it in 2023 ) 14: and of course in December after many years of working together via online means (5 plus years (and as you know even wrote a blog for them last year ) We finally meet up with Mark from Purdie in person at their offices (the elf was out when we came but the Giraffe from the Giraffe around town project was in ) |
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