Juliet Guthrie in Germany and Patricia Law in Italy reveal how sending gifts and staying connected with family members is more challenging than ever before
Polly Toynbee’s excellent article (The Brexit deal was astonishingly bad, and every day the evidence piles up, 16 March) has prompted me to write. I am a 62-year old British woman living in Germany because of my husband’s job. So far we have lost rights and exchanged our driving licences for German ones. I no longer buy clothes from my favourite British companies or wool from a small business in my hometown in Wales.
Although I wanted to remain in the EU, I try to stay calm and look for any benefits from our situation. So far, one advantage is that we now have permanent residence permits that act as identification and this saves me taking my passport to collect a parcel from the post office, etc.
