I made myself comfortable and settled in for what was bound to be a bureaucratic nightmare. But we didn’t have a choice, we needed a long stay visa for France. Brexit and Schengen 90 - 180 day rule has added to our many challenges. When we first started planning our journey it was pre-Brexit, (feels like a decade ago) and now we needed to find a way to work our way around these travel restrictions (legally !) so we could spend more than 3 months at a time in Europe.