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Visa Done

18 August 2020 | Marsden Cove Marina
Chris Bates | Wet and windy
Have been struggling with the visa application for a few days. It was one problem after another. I have no idea how people manage to do it on their phones. I suppose we will have to get used to it as it will be visas for Europe next year. First problem was it would not accept the photo, tried lots of different shots against different walls in different light conditions and eventually gave up and had a 'professional' one from the chemist, who just used a door as background same as me. Anyway it worked and was accepted by the visa people. The form was not too bad it was all the documents you needed to upload that caused the problem, all the things like marriage certificate are at home. We had to download 6 months of bank statements but they come in individual months and had to be amalgamated into 1 document. To do this I had to change them to word format join then together and then back to PDF. I had to download software to do the transfers so just hoping I have not downloaded ant viruses with them. Now I have finished I have the job of uninstalling and getting rid of the random extras that were tagged on. Still I have nothing better to do, it is wet and windy, the boat is rolling around and not really walking weather. To think that yesterday I thought that spring had sprung.
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Vessel Name: Esprit de la mer
Vessel Make/Model: Beneteau
Hailing Port: Milford Haven
Crew: Chris and Penny Bates
About:
Chris Bates is a Haverfordwest GP retiring at the end of March after 28 years at Winch Lane Surgery. Penny is a nurse in outpatients at Withybush Hospital and retires at the end of June. [...]
Extra:
Capt pictured here with his pet seagull says 'Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans: it is lovely to be silly at the right moment' and thinks it is far more important to find him a name so we are running a competition to find him a name and guess the miles he will have sailed by [...]
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