CJ_covblaze
Well-Known Member
Now's the time to do it, before you have to buy your visa waiver (maybe a visa if it goes *really* tits up), extra travel insurance to cover the loss of Ehic, driving permit if you want to drive there, and also take advantage of no roaming charges for your mobile.
All of this will be pretty cheap and easy to acquire. How long does it take to sort out an ESTA? It takes minutes. Most of the places I’ve been to outside the EU have taken less time to see us over the border than those within in it. I was able to use my mobile free in the EU and beyond long before 2016. It was the same for who I travel with.
For what it’s worth as others have said a lot of these countries depend on our tourism. They also depend on what we can offer at GCHQ. Their bankers buy our cars. Their builders buy our JCBs. Most over here get a new smartphone, laptop and tablet every year or two made by a company based in California, Seoul or Taipei City. We offer too much to the world financially and through our products and expertise. The same goes the other way. That isn’t going to change. Our government are making a dogs breakfast of sorting it but it will be sorted in the end.