Welcome to Episode 144 of my podcasts that hear from the crow's nest, and it is Monday the 26th of October 2020. Today was a sort of semi day off or accidental semi day off. It was on a bit of a quest. So, we have a few admin hurdles and hoops to jump through so I need to transfer my residency to Castroville array to this part of it today, and I need to do it before the end of the year, because I need to make sure that I'm still able to come and go within the EU once UK leaves the EU once Brexit happens. And being a resident gives me that ability. And so, I will we were told that to become or we found out that to become a resident as a foreigner, I have to have private health insurance. And so, the council said you need this right you can go to the post office where they've got private health insurance and get it from there. Okay, great. So today we went to the post office, and after an hour there abouts. They didn't know what we were talking about but they were really helpful they did their best. The what they came up with was. You can't get private health insurance or this private health insurance because you don't have your tax code. But I can't get my tax code, until I have residency status. And I can't get residency status until I have health insurance. I can't get health insurance. So I've got a tax code, and you can see how the loop goes round and round it's because Italy. So, at least, to be fair, the ladies in the post office were really trying to help, and not be rude like you'd normally get in this kind of situation. But that was a good hour and a bit of basically wasted. So, then we went on to the next thing was just sort out the internet because on Saturday I ran out of internet 10 days into my 30 day plan. And I use some monitors now she's down to about 20 Meg's right nothing. And we really need broadband data and we ordered broadband six weeks ago, and they've been delivering and dicking around and now they're telling us the ninth of November is ridiculous. So we thought let's go elsewhere. So long story short, we spent another hour and a bit in Photoshop, looking at different broadband phone packages and the guy again was really helpful was really nice guy, and he actually gave me, I mean gave me for free a sim like a SIM card to get internet just as a temporary measure, which was really nice because he could have charged us. But, and so now I've got internet which is wonderful. I've got hundred gigs, which I imagine can't write will last me a few weeks. But now we've got we've decided on getting an unlimited mobile internet but now I'm thinking actually is to slow the downloads and upgrades about 23 Meg's and the uploads only about one Meg of what I need is too slow. So we still need to get broadband put in, and there are only two players including the one who are dicking around so now he might need to go to the ones who dicking around, But we read, we think the reason that wasn't working is because we didn't have an Italian I ban. Listen to my podcast of a couple of days ago but now we've sorted that out and it's just everything is just hoops and hurdles and bureaucracy and pain and no one does what they say they'll do and they, you know, the salespeople lie their asses off constantly. When we took the broadband six weeks ago we also took gas and electricity as part of the package, and they said yeah there's no cost, there's no setup costs, there's no additional costs, oh okay cool yeah no no we waive the costs. Great. We don't charge anything up front. Okay, great. First build the electricity comes in and they've got 50 pound extra on it, so I was that it's like, oh, that's the connection fee, like you said there were no costs. You weren't gonna charge us No we didn't charge you upfront, we just added the connection fee to your first bill, little bastard man. And that's just it that's how they do things here, which is something I still have to get used to. Because in the UK. They don't really do it like that
