TGLW and I are thinking of taking our daughter abroad for the first time in a few years next summer. Bloody awful timing, obviously, with sodding Brexit happening in March unless we can stop it, which looks unlikely. This isn't supposed to be a moan, I'm well aware that difficulties with foreign holidays are a very trivial matter compared to the existential problems that Brexit is going to cause lots of individuals and families with regard to job losses, uncertainty of permission to live where they live etc. More just a rumination - and a few questions in case anyone is kind enough to chip in with good advice - about the additional hurdles that might face us if we do opt for a European holiday, especially one in which we take our car.
Off the top of my head:
- we'll need good medical insurance to replace the recriprocal medical treatment rights we had as citizens of a member state;
- everything will be super expensive for us because sterling will have crashed
- we'll probably need to allow several hours for queueing at ports to get on the boat, instead of 30-45 mins
- driving licences - I think I read recently that UK driving licences will probably no longer be valid around the EU and we'll need to apply for international ones, is that right?
- visas? Anyone know if we can be confident of having visa-free tourist visit rights to all EU countries after no-deal Brexit? (I'd have thought that, given the value of the British tourist trade, EU member states would be pretty daft to stop that but I suppose they might do it - despite the loss of tourist trade - to make a point in protest at the utter cuntishness which our scumbag government - supported, it's fair to say, by a sizeable malevolent percentage of the British populace - is displaying to EU citizens in Britain.
Any thoughts?
Off the top of my head:
- we'll need good medical insurance to replace the recriprocal medical treatment rights we had as citizens of a member state;
- everything will be super expensive for us because sterling will have crashed
- we'll probably need to allow several hours for queueing at ports to get on the boat, instead of 30-45 mins
- driving licences - I think I read recently that UK driving licences will probably no longer be valid around the EU and we'll need to apply for international ones, is that right?
- visas? Anyone know if we can be confident of having visa-free tourist visit rights to all EU countries after no-deal Brexit? (I'd have thought that, given the value of the British tourist trade, EU member states would be pretty daft to stop that but I suppose they might do it - despite the loss of tourist trade - to make a point in protest at the utter cuntishness which our scumbag government - supported, it's fair to say, by a sizeable malevolent percentage of the British populace - is displaying to EU citizens in Britain.
Any thoughts?
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