Do you know anything about anything !
Post Brexit - Green card
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Do you know anything about anything !
I thought it already had according to the experts
Carry on in ignorance
One that the UK government are apparently going to enforce for them. We were told that we'd "take back control of our own borders" but the Brexiteers didn't tell us that it would be after someone else had decided where they were going to be re-drawn to.
I've no problem with a united Ireland but I do have a big problem with lying, disingenuous, self-serving politicians. I know that's 90% of them but I honestly think that the Brexit arm of the Tory party has plumbed depths not previously explored.
Getting back to the thread my Direct Line car insurance and Ageas bike insurance both state that, apart from minimum cover, I have to call them to upgrade for European cover for a maximum of 90 days per year and they'll kindly let me know how much extra they're going to charge me. No mention of Green Cards as such in either.
No problem, I was resident before being naturalized for over 20 years, I’ve owned cars, bikes, houses, guns, all without issue
Where are you by the way? (Roughly) if you don’t mind me asking
Near Bagneres de Luchon. We (used to) spend 3 to 5 months a year there.
I like it there, nice town
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Once we're a semi third world country, maybe Italy and Greece will feel sorry for us and let us in.
Because most respected think-tanks see it going that way. But hey !! Blue passports !! woooooooo
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk...nomic-challenges-mount-think-tank-2021-05-17/
Because most respected think-tanks see it going that way. But hey !! Blue passports !! woooooooo
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk...nomic-challenges-mount-think-tank-2021-05-17/
Looks nice, didn’t know it
Staying over on the Spanish side, at Vielha.....it was good to ride over to Bagnieres for a mooch and lunch
It had a old colonial type of feel & a spa town
How to change your green card into a blue (more British) one.
To apply for a green card, you simply need to telephone your insurer and ask for one (imagine the inconvenience),
Make sure you tell your insurer exactly where you're going to be travelling to ensure the green card you receive is
valid for all your destinations. Phew.
It used to be the case that green cards needed to be printed on green paper in order to be valid, but this is no longer
the case. This means if your insurer sends your green card digitally, you're free to print it out on plain white paper,
but if you feed blue paper into your printer you end up with a 'green card' that's in fact blue.
Bon voyage.
To apply for a green card, you simply need to telephone your insurer and ask for one (imagine the inconvenience),
Make sure you tell your insurer exactly where you're going to be travelling to ensure the green card you receive is
valid for all your destinations. Phew.
It used to be the case that green cards needed to be printed on green paper in order to be valid, but this is no longer
the case. This means if your insurer sends your green card digitally, you're free to print it out on plain white paper,
but if you feed blue paper into your printer you end up with a 'green card' that's in fact blue.
Bon voyage.
indeed. I just had my first ever white, green card, issued in Germany.
Loving the expiry date
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indeed. I just had my first ever white, green card, issued in Germany.
Loving the expiry date
Genießen.
My multiple green cards, valid until the expiry of my policy in April 2022, have just arrived from ERS. There’s only one tiny fly in the ointment, to spoil an otherwise smooth transaction. The card identifies me as Miss Wapping. Whilst I know it’s nowadays possible to identify as what or whom ever you like, be that cat, tree or a miss, I would (not unreasonably perhaps) like to be identified as a Mister, or just have my name, to then leave it to the local constabulary (should I be as unfortunate to meet them in their professional capacity) draw their own conclusions as to my sex and marital status.
I don’t need to imagine the inconvenience of ringing up each time, deciding in advance, when, where or if I will or might be going and / or in which vehicle. I don’t have to imagine it, because it plainly is inconvenient for both me and my insurer. That inconvenience (with assistance from my insurer) I have now removed. That took time and effort on my part and theirs, an inconvenience that was not present in our lives before Brexit. It has just added to the paperwork and inefficiencies, just as much as the latest confusion over import duties and taxes has done. If Brexit was aimed at removing the UK from bureaucracy, it has plainly failed, dismally.
John, I see your 'green' card covers you for several more countries than mine does, Turkey, Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania, and a few others I don't think I'd want to travel too, even to the UK!
My insurer requests to be informed each time I take a vehicle abroad. Both the duration and each country travelled through.
I now have to add to that conversation, "Oh, and could you send me a white 'green card' please". Piece 'o' piss.
John, I see your 'green' card covers you for several more countries than mine does, Turkey, Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania, and a few others I don't think I'd want to travel too, even to the UK!
It is not unusual for German insurers to extend cover into the former eastern block and Turkey, by default. Several of the German insurers have their own offices in the countries, each licensed to write local Motor insurance, which makes it easier for them to do it. I will be asking ERS if they can extend my cover into the Ukraine in 2022. If they can, great. If they can’t, then I’ll have to find some other solution, I guess.
You can buy insurance quite easily at the Ukraine border for about $20-30.
My green card covered me (French), my mates didn't (UK).
My Green card is on the basis that I need to tell the insurers dates and countries to get full coverage.
My personal Brexit Dividend is approximately €250 worth of customs charges for the paperwork involved in moving a Danish bike out of the EU, this is before I incur UK VAT and associated charges.
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My personal Brexit Dividend is approximately €250 worth of customs charges for the paperwork involved in moving a Danish bike out of the EU, this is before I incur UK VAT and associated charges.
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Thank you. I have read the same elsewhere. Roll on 2022.
Lucky me, I am still a citizen of EU, with indefinite right to stay in the UK
. So I can carry on in that respect, as if nothing had happened 
.Traveling to EU by UK registered vehicle though, is going to be a PITA, with all the extra hoops, that have been added into the equation.
One of the examples, is the need for displaying the dreaded GB sticker.
I hate stickers at best of times, especially those. They always look tired and naff.The other, is having to tell your insurer the exact bloody dates that your vehicle will be out of the country.
Having said that, I have ordered my “Green Card” yesterday for my travels to Spain in September and gave been told to sit tight and wait, as it can take apparently up-to TWO months to arrive
.Better, find something to do in the mean time then.
If it wasn’t for this thread, I’d feeling very sorry closer to travel date.
So a mahoooosive thank you to the OP, for starting it.
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