WE ARE OUT OF EUROPE!!!!!!!!
At least Benny and I are; we are on a ferry home....
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Do I read all 25 pages I missed or just click the last page....hum
ThisThe second option. Every time, the second option!
This is the view you want coming back from france , vroom vroom not chug chugWE ARE OUT OF EUROPE!!!!!!!!
At least Benny and I are; we are on a ferry home....
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Wonder where I stand, I have an Irish driving licence, but I'm not an Irish citizen although I do live in work in Ireland (for now). I don't have to change it if I go back to UK, seems odd, and don't need to change the address on it, it's not a requirement to do that in Ireland. Mine's got my old Irish address on it.
Wonder where I stand, I have an Irish driving licence, but I'm not an Irish citizen although I do live in work in Ireland (for now). I don't have to change it if I go back to UK, seems odd, and don't need to change the address on it, it's not a requirement to do that in Ireland. Mine's got my old Irish address on it.
That's what I was saying, sort of!But bizarrely I have to apply for an Irish license to drive over here post a UK exit from the EU which will then enable me to drive in Europe and the UK even after a UK exit.
Ummm, we're taking back control of our borders........sorry if that gets in the way of some holiday plans.Copied from elsewhere.
Glad I'm in France and can easily drive around Europe.
This afternoon I had the great pleasure of seeing how wonderful it is for Great Britain to “take back control“ in celebration of Brexit.
I thought I would share my joy with you.
Having queued in the post office for an hour to be told that I had to join another queue as only one lady was trained to help me, I joined her queue to wait for 20 minutes.
The charming lady told me to join a further 10 minute queue for a photo machine as unlike passports it could not be a digital photo. Armed with my paper photos I rejoined a queue for another 30 minutes.
The lady asked me which European countries I would be driving in over the next year. As I will be driving in several countries I was thrilled to find that I had taken so much control back that I would need four international driving permits, each inscribed with details of the Convention on Road Traffic of 19th of September 1949; into which decade I definitely felt I had now lapsed.
A rather scruffy piece of card was then inscribed manually with my details. My photograph was glued into it. This process was repeated four times.
Having parted with £28 for the privilege of driving in Europe, I was thrilled to find that I could take back control and repeat the whole process and make the same payment next year; subject to increase by Her Majesty’s government.
As I left the post office I was overjoyed to see that the pound had fallen dramatically further today thus ensuring that I could feel even more impoverished than previous falls in Sterling have already made me.
Nevertheless, having reverted to a period of my early childhood when travel was so much more difficult, I will benefit from feeling awfully nostalgic while I drive in poverty through Europe, with my four antediluvian card passes.
I’m really looking forward to taking back more control on 31 October.
Ummm, we're taking back control of our borders........sorry if that gets in the way of some holiday plans.
I’m not conflating it, the previous post I replied to seems to have a problem with it and used “taking back control” as an encompassing phrase in reference to needing to get various travel permissions around Europe!You are aware I assume, that as non-members of schengen, that we were never out of control of our borders.
But it seems that you are conflating freedom of movement with control of borders. Sadly freedom of movement will not end on Brexit day (whenever that will be) because successive U.K. governments of all colours have failed to keep records which allows them to determine when an EU citizen arrived in the U.K. Records that would, of course, have allowed the U.K. to remove unemployed EU citizens who do not have sufficient resources and health insurance after 3 months even before Brexit.
But it’s ok, that is the government which will have control of our borders and I am sure they’ll get it right this time eh?
But it seems that you are conflating freedom of movement with control of borders. Sadly freedom of movement will not end on Brexit day (whenever that will be) because successive U.K. governments of all colours have failed to keep records which allows them to determine when an EU citizen arrived in the U.K. Records that would, of course, have allowed the U.K. to remove unemployed EU citizens who do not have sufficient resources and health insurance after 3 months even before Brexit.
But it’s ok, that is the government which will have control of our borders and I am sure they’ll get it right this time eh?