Summer heat means standard dress is polo-shirt, shorts and sandals. We negotiate a move from the apartment in Tivat to take over most of the rest of the stone-house in Risan in a room of which we stored all our belongings which came out from UK earlier in the year. The actual move will happen in September, after the summer letting season is over.
A major activity is getting our presence in the country legalised. A new ‘Aliens Act’ came into law in the Spring but without a category for retired people like ourselves. This meant we have registered ourselves as entrepreneurs. Fortunately we have help from an energetic young man who sorts out the paperwork for us, but it still means a considerable time spent queuing at different offices in different agencies, from the municipality to local offices of the central government.
As part of our research into the paperwork for our residency permits, we find that the municipal Cadastre Office has not got a full record of our ownership of our land in Risan. We should have 2 documents in the Cadastre. One records in words our ownership of the designated plot. The other is a drawing giving the location and boundaries. The latter is missing. We are put in touch with someone who free-lances for those like us who need to find out what is happening. She does indeed provide information – not welcome; among other things, the lawyer who purportedly put in an application for our land to be included in the revised Urban Plan in October 2007 did not actually do a proper job. Also that the land in early 2007 was actually registered in the name of the lawyer who we used to transact the purchase! All that is now sorted, and we have the proper documents. There is still, though, no progress on the Urban Plan – frustrating.
To round off the month, James’ trusty laptop of 8 years, Ermintrude (successor to Buttercup and Daisy, all Gateway computers whose black and white corporate design made James think of Friesian cows), has a brain seizure (ie motherboard failure) and dies.
Day: 22 August 2009
July/ August 2009
Summer heat means standard dress is polo-shirt, shorts and sandals. We negotiate a move from the apartment in Tivat to take over most of the rest of the stone-house in Risan in a room of which we stored all our belongings which came out from UK earlier in the year. The actual move will happen in September, after the summer letting season is over.
A major activity is getting our presence in the country legalised. A new ‘Aliens Act’ came into law in the Spring but without a category for retired people like ourselves. This meant we have registered ourselves as entrepreneurs. Fortunately we have help from an energetic young man who sorts out the paperwork for us, but it still means a considerable time spent queuing at different offices in different agencies, from the municipality to local offices of the central government.
As part of our research into the paperwork for our residency permits, we find that the municipal Cadastre Office has not got a full record of our ownership of our land in Risan. We should have 2 documents in the Cadastre. One records in words our ownership of the designated plot. The other is a drawing giving the location and boundaries. The latter is missing. We are put in touch with someone who free-lances for those like us who need to find out what is happening. She does indeed provide information – not welcome; among other things, the lawyer who purportedly put in an application for our land to be included in the revised Urban Plan in October 2007 did not actually do a proper job. Also that the land in early 2007 was actually registered in the name of the lawyer who we used to transact the purchase! All that is now sorted, and we have the proper documents. There is still, though, no progress on the Urban Plan – frustrating.
To round off the month, James’ trusty laptop of 8 years, Ermintrude (successor to Buttercup and Daisy, all Gateway computers whose black and white corporate design made James think of Friesian cows), has a brain seizure (ie motherboard failure) and dies.