
After the vote to leave the EU, the decades-long ease with which the British have holidayed, worked and lived in other member states has ended.
The UK negotiated for British travellers to the Schengen Area (covering much of Europe) to be limited to a stay of 90 days in any 180 days. So UK passport holders with second homes in the European Union cannot spend more than three months of the winter living there, unless they have a hard-to-obtain long-stay visa.