It was only a few decades ago that the prospect of international travel was like planning a military expedition blended with a judicious mixture of uncertainty and an adventure holiday. Even for what is now considered a short-haul journey within the mainland of the European Union, the truly intrepid traveller would take the boat train from London’s Victoria Station to Dover and face a voyage across the sometimes stormy English Channel to France or Belgium and then bunk down in a railway carriage for a few days before arriving at a remote destination feeling like a bit part player in an Agatha Christie novel! Perhaps the Harry Potter phenomenon will see a revival of interest in railway travel as a way of escaping the woes of everyday life and reaching the magic kingdom?

Thankfully perhaps, those days are definitely a thing of the past. The advent of the Channel Tunnel and Eurostar gets us to France or Belgium at breakneck speed. We don’t even need tickets before travelling to an airport – online bookings for low cost airlines mean we can simply turn up, take off and within a few hours be soaking up the sunset over Aphrodite’s Rock near Paphos on the beautiful sub-tropical island of cyprus in the Eastern Mediterranean. A journey of a few thousand miles in time and space takes us to a different world of luxury in our rented villa or apartment – relaxing by the pool or driving the hire Car we booked online with Hestia Holidays to a romantic beachside restaurant to enjoy a cyprus Meze or freshly-caught fish!

Although you may be worlds apart from where you began your epic journey to this land of ancient monuments and Blue Flag beaches, absence can make the heart grow fonder. The urge to phone home can be hard to resist, if only to commiserate with friends and family on their plight of living through yet another deluge as the heavens decide to open up. Of course, you can do the phoning yourself - but if your loved ones want to show they miss you and care, they can call you!

Going back to those bygone days, at one time it wasn’t so easy to either phone home – or get home to phone you. However, progress is a wonderful thing and these days you can forego the pleasure of having to book a call via the international operator - and simply make the call yourself. If friends and family want to phone you they can do so directly through normal BT or other landline services. If so, they will probably be paying more than they need to.

In much the same way that low cost flights have given people greater freedom of choice about where they go and what they do, the advent of cheap international phone calls using a simple access number from a normal landline helps more people keep in touch with each other than ever before. This service offers a cheap, no-frills, easy to use way of contacting friends, family - or anyone else for that matter - outside the UK.

All you need to do is dial a dedicated  ‘access number’ - 0844 5524506, from a UK landline, followed by the International number in full. For the low cost of just 5p per minute this service can be used for calling landlines and mobiles in cyprus and also most other countries including Australia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Portugal, Thailand and the USA.

The beauty of this service is in its very simplicity – no contract, no account, no credit card. All you do is dial abroad for the price of a UK call and save money!

Now there’s no excuse for the folks back home to take a little time out and call you!

To download the image below; right-click and ’save picture as’, will allow you to save the image onto your computer - you can easily print this to leave by the phone, you can email or print and post or give to your friends, family, colleagues or associates…

 Call Abroad For Less

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