Packing boxes is not the hardest part of moving to another country. It is the administrative hassle around it.
I wanted to order a UK mobilephone number, as one of the first things. And easymobile got recommened by the Danes-in-London group on yahoo. So I decided to sign up there. And I knew they needed a UK address to send the simcard to, but no problem I had that. The problem was that they only accepted UK credit cards for payment. And that I don’t have. Getting a UK bankaccount is supposed to be the most difficult step of the whole project.
But I wasn’t going to give up that easily, and I didn’t feel like phoning around at expensive danish rates while in London the week of 13th of February. So I tried the Easymobile live support chat. And through this genious system I could chat with Elliot. And Elliot was a nice guy, probably a Londoner, but I could not really hear his accent, as we were only writing to each other. And I explained him that I really would love to be a customer but, the credit card was a problem.
But Elliot said – no problem – fax me a copy of your passport and your Danish creditcard and I will let you get your UK phonenumber. You can pick your own telephone number (to a certain extent) and I already had a number I would really like to have. I am a number freak.
When the real estate people come with people to have a look at my flat they normally contact me a day or two in advance, so I can clean up a bit. Normally that goes like waiting until the evening before, very late, and then just stack all the stuff laying on my table into one of my drawers.
What does that have to do with the mobile phone number you are wondering. Well – where the hack is my passport !?!
I don’t want to get you panicing, but it might just be the case that getting a phone number is not the biggest problem you’ll encounter without a passport. If you want to move to GB, that is.
Sounds familiar…….about your passport…;-)) a few years ago you had the same problem, remeber?
Oh really ? Where was it that time ? It might be in the same place ! :-)
Did you check the Rommellaatje, Ingrid?
Yes Jan, it was the rommellaatje last time, I remember.
How did you know that Jan – I had forgotten that :-) I found my passport by the way, it was not in a laatje this time.
Insight in female nature…. my beloved has ADD and my daughter ADHD…. I’m the memory of three….
Jan, what is ADD?
ADD is ADHD without the H.
She’s not Hyperactive, but does have the other symptoms like absence of mind, concentration problems, chaotic etc. etc.
It’s not as bad as it sounds though, it’s just hard at times because things tend to get out of control and with all oversight gone….
So, like I said, I’m remembering stuff for the three of us. Good for the brain…
Jan, we can shake hands… got a girlfriend with 35% sight… two kids with ASS (asperger, odd, maybe ADHD) and a little girl of 5 (allergic and with a faboluous brain of where the other family members left their stuff) ;)