I got a call from Vodafone, my mobile phone network, earlier today. They were confirming that my phone hadn’t been stolen since there was some unusual activity on it.

This unusual activity was some large calls that were made abroad… over £550 worth! I was rather shocked by the size of my bill, as you can imagine. My bills are usually around the £30 mark each month. One call was over £300 alone! Made in the US, to Canada, from a UK based mobile. Whoops!!

Vodafone wanted to take a pre-payment immediately so I had to check what my bank balances were, luckily having just enough for what they were asking, and paid them £300 today. The rest will come with my normal bill next month, another 200 quids worth of calls.

*sigh*

I wish I’d never turned the roaming feature on now!!

But I’ve learned a valuable lesson… mobiles are flipping expensive when you’re abroad!!