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Re: [ST] Ride Report - UK -> Slovenia
- Subject: Re: [ST] Ride Report - UK -> Slovenia
- From: Gavin Lawrie <gavin.lawrie@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 15:48:34 +0100
On 3 Jun 2005, at 14:51, iPat wrote:
Gavin, the only thing i missed from the report was some of the
leglaities of
teh trip. What did yo do for insurance, did you change the
headlight setting
etc? Nice write up!
Hi
Insurance: just got a green-card for my UK insurance. All the
countries in the EU are covered automatically by UK policies now it
seems - some EU requirement. But Slovenia is a transitional member
(i.e. will be one day, but may or may not be now depending on which
bit of EU stuff you look at...) and so for there it was suggested I
take a Green Card form - this was issued for free. But probably not
really necessary. I also got an E111(?) form to ensure I could get
health care in Europe on NHS should I need it, this too was issued
for free. I got some recovery insurance from AA (£42 for a week) -
but have since changed insurer and this is now provided free with
policy (a benefit provided by the broker Carole Nash) so in future
will be free. I also have absurdly comprehensive travel insurance
(lost bags etc.) as side effect of my AMEX card.
Headlight: I was wondering about this, and did some research before
the trip. Turns out (on Dept of Transport web site) that bikes don't
need to comply with the beam changing requirements applied to cars.
So I didn't do anything...
In Austria I had to by a 'vignette' to allow me to ride bike on
Austrian Autobahns - there is a booth set up by border crossing with
Germany that you can get these from. Cost about £10 for 10 days.
Other than that, border controls only apparent in / out of UK and
in / out of Slovenia: all rest are covered by EU's open borders
system. In Italy you still have to give the Hotel keeper your
passport overnight, but no one else wanted to see it. I am told you
need to take original ownership documents etc. with you, so had all
those with me, but didn't ever have need to show them to anyone.
I booked the hotel for my first night away before I left, but after
that just worked out where to stay evening before while planning ride
for next day. In Salzburg I got hotel from previous night to do
booking for me, for Italy I did it via Internet from friends house in
Slovenia, and in France I just turned up at likely looking hotel and
asked.
Most of the trip I paid for things with mixture of Euros and Visa
card. Where these didn't work (for example, in un-manned fuel
stations in France) I used my AMEX. Slovenia takes Euros most of the
time - so had taken a few Slovenian Tolars just in case but ended up
giving them to children of my friend in Slovenia when I left. But
certainly worth having cash as well as cards, as now and again you'd
find places that didn't do credit cards at all... I kept a small
amount of Euros with me all the time, topping up from cash machines
as I went round as needed.
Regards
Gavin Lawrie
ST'03
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