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  1. I agree with Lehaut. The first course of action before diving into a legal case is usually to try to reach an agreement, and it may not be too late to do so.
  2. I worked on offshore rigs in foreign countries for several years, but left the industry some time ago. I worked approximately six months per year, and commuted from England, and then from Spain, to other countries. I made sure I was recorded as spending less than the minimum time for tax liability in any country, which was usually 90 days in any 12 month period. Note that this is a rolling, not a specific 12 month period. As far as I know, tax liability in most countries still depends on the time spent there in any year. The best known exception to this is the USA, so the country of domicile should also be considered. I assume you have Googled "offshore workers tax advisor", which finds accounting companies, some of whom seem to be experienced enough. However, in my experience a specialised tax advisor is better than an accountant. I lost a lot of money following the advice of an English accountant. I eventually followed advice from Blevins Franks, but there are several others.
  3. Best to ask your neighbours for recommendations for connecting your boxes. There is a school teaching French not too far from you, which you might find useful if you haven't learned enough French in 18 years here:- https://www.naturellementfrancais.com/
  4. They occasionally come up on Leboncoin at very reduced prices. This one is the electric version of ours https://www.leboncoin.fr/velos/1977590218.htm
  5. We have one car 27 years old and another 29 years old. If the battery is disconnected in the older car, all the calculated and stored corrections which have to be applied to the original settings for the fuel mixture and ignition timing etc. as the engine wears are lost, and the engine runs quite roughly for the next 30 to 50 km, until new corrections are established for specific driving conditions. For the newer car, only the memory for the electric window open and closed positions for "one button" operation are lost. These can be reset by a procedure I can never remember, but eventually reset themselves after a day or two. In any case, I use a MEMORY SAVER , which plugs into the lighter socket, to avoid any inconvenience if I have to disconnect either battery.
  6. I've just realised you are looking at going northwards and eventually joining the A9 to Narbonne near Bram, which I wouldn't consider, especially in the middle of summer. You would go almost through Carcassonne, which I think would be a far more interesting place to visit than Narbonne, and the countryside is good around there, as mentioned. Both towns have a traffic problem, especially in summer. Maybe you like Autoroutes, but I stay off them when on holiday, as the cost is around 50% of the cost of the fuel I use, and one sees nothing except trucks and inferior restaurants and caffs in service stops.
  7. I don't know what route you are looking at, but if I were going from Andorra to Narbonne I'd go via Perpignan - at least as far as the junction of the N116 with the N9. I refer to the old National (N) road numbers, which have been changed in many places since the handover of main roads to the Departments. Many are now labelled "D", but often have the same number or a slight variation of it, e.g. D6113 for the old N113. Quite often the old designation is still on many signs. Mappy gives the distance and time to Perpignan as 162km in 2h38 min, but if I were driving a people carrier on holiday in July I'd allow more than that.
  8. The drive from Andorra to Perpignan, although we enjoy travelling that way to Spain and avoiding the more popular routes and motorways, is not going to be enjoyable for your family. I suggest you buy a paper map and look carefully at the roads around the area. I use an old one, Michelin 235, which covers this area particularly well on one page, and is still available from various sources.
  9. If you disconnect the device or the battery this will be recorded, so the record of the car's movements will not be complete. As far as your insurance company could tell, you could be driving hundreds of kilometers whilst it is disconnected. Why don't you ask the company what the consumption is, and what they suggest? If this is a newish car, disconnecting the battery could also cause problems, and is usually not recommended. Check the car's handbook. A good reliable trickle charger is HERE . I have one in each of our vehicles, always connected to the battery, so we just open the bonnet to connect it with an extension cord.
  10. We had buyers like that. So we kept what we could shift in our lorry, gave the rest to our farmer friend across the road, and left absolutely nothing, as they wished.
  11. One must be careful everywhere in these woke times. I'm too scared to go to the UK, haven't been for nearly 14 years now.
  12. Happy New Year to all those still logging in despite everything.
  13. But how do you tell a competent professional from an incompetent one? I'd need more than some blurb on the back of a van.
  14. They don't really have much of a life, though 😒
  15. Well, you will at least know from your Army days that if you hear the gunshot, it missed you 😉
  16. Write your post in a Word, Notepad, or other document, saving it frequently - whenever you think of it. When you have finished it, read it through and correct any mistakes - not suggesting you ever make any. Copy and paste it into your post.
  17. Robson. If you have Windows 10, highlight the text, right click on it, choose "Translate selection into English" from the menu which appears.
  18. We always have or jabs administered by our local nurses when possible, as I think they need the small amount they are paid more than the pharmacie does.
  19. Sorry, in the above I meant gyroscopic force, not centrifugal force.
  20. They are a little harder to pedal, as the riding position is different and they are heavier, ours being about 30kg each. Not much weight to tie down compared with a motorcycle, so the 2.5cm webbing strap at the rear, 3 good quality bungees and the bar at the front are quite adequate. The strap goes through the spokes and over each of the rear axle mounts rather than over the axle. This is to avoid any risk of distorting the axle and the expensive differential gear by passing the strap over the axle itself. I have seen loads damaged by over tightening securing devices. The main problem for most people who have ridden bicycles for years is resisting the instinct to lean when steering, while pushing on the handlebars When riding a bicycle, as one leans into corners the centrifugal force acting on the front wheel makes it turn into the corner, so one unconsciously corrects this by pushing the handlebars in the opposite direction to the corner, The result of doing this on a trike is that it goes in circles while the rider leans outwards, as seen in the video above. How NOT to tie down a bike:
  21. Thank you for your tips on attaching cycles to trailers.
  22. We both had several falls from our bicycles, and after OH broke her ankle and I badly cut my leg we both gave up. As we need exercise and have problems walking we bought two rather expensive Pfautec tricycles,and sold our five bicycles to help defray the cost.We then discovered how difficult it is for people used to bicycles to return to tricycles, which were no problem with when they were kids. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSBaoOQv9A0 If it doesn't follow on from the previous video, you might enjoy this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE85x9VCdz8 We rarely rode our bikes on the roads here, as there are plenty of tracks in the garrigue, but they are too narrow and rough for trikes. We have tried riding them on quiet lanes here, but it is nerve-wracking to be on such a wide machine when cars pass, especially when one hasn't really mastered the riding technique. There are no cycle paths on the roads and the footpaths are impossible because of high kerbs with no lowered access even for invalid transport, and are obstructed with posts and street furniture. The trikes can quite quickly be dismantled into two sections, but even then are too big to both fit into our station wagon, so I have bought a motorcycle trailer and added channels for the rear wheels so that it could carry one of the trikes. We are now set to go by road to reach Voies vertes in France or Vias Verdes in Spain.
  23. There are others besides what you have. e.g.https://www.amazon.fr/Braun-20042HB-boucles-renforcées-capacité/dp/B002C1ARSK/ref=asc_df_B002C1ARSK/?tag=googshopfr-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=194868891965&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10169985011655647695&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9110773&hvtargid=pla-350423648596&psc=1 Edit: O.K. that's for lifting. There's one for towing HERE
  24. It looks to me like heavy duty webbing, as used for towing, etc.
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