{"id":12205,"date":"2013-07-29T03:22:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T02:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/?p=12205"},"modified":"2013-11-15T13:19:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T12:19:51","slug":"the-importance-of-having-a-european-health-insurance-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/the-importance-of-having-a-european-health-insurance-card\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Having a European Health Insurance Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Anthony Brown fishing the week of 6<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0July here at Genets discovered just how important it is to have a current European Health Insurance Card (EHIC ) with you when fishing in France.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday morning while threading a dumbbell boilie with a long barbed baiting needle the needle went into the end of his finger, try as he might to remove it there was no way it would budge &amp; his finger just started to swell. It was off to the \u201cUrgences\u201d dept at Fougeres hospital we went armed with his EHIC &amp; passport.<!--more-->\u00a0 On arrival he was dealt with very swiftly, copies of his EHIC &amp; passport were taken followed by an x-ray &amp; a blood test to check if he needed a tetanus jab, the needle was then removed, the finger cleaned &amp; dressed &amp; within a couple of hours he was back at the lake putting his rods back out.<\/p>\n<p>Do please always remember to get your European Health Insurance Card before travelling to France, they are free &amp; very easy to apply for online or by telephone &amp; can save you from receiving a hefty bill to pay once you return home.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12206\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12206\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12206\" alt=\"Genets Carp Fishing France\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2013\/07\/large_Anthony_34lb_9oz_PB.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2013\/07\/large_Anthony_34lb_9oz_PB.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2013\/07\/large_Anthony_34lb_9oz_PB-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2013\/07\/large_Anthony_34lb_9oz_PB-150x124.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">On a lighter note Anthony also celebrated his 26th Birthday here &amp; achieved a new PB Carp of 34lb 9oz!<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em>For more information on Genets follow the link<strong> &#8211;<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/Genets\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carp Fishing France<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Brown fishing the week of 6th\u00a0July here at Genets discovered just how important it is to have a current European Health Insurance Card (EHIC ) with you when fishing in France. On Wednesday morning while threading a dumbbell boilie with a long barbed baiting needle the needle went into the end of his finger, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,835],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carp-fishing-news","category-first-carp-fishing-trip-to-france"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}