In reply to planetmarshall:
> And also purchase travel insurance?
in all fairness i had travel insurance when i had a similar experience Down Hill biking in the Alps and landed heavily on my head and had to get taken down the mountain on a spinal board to this grotty little local surgery where they did some neck x rays , when they had decided that i hadn't done any spinal injury just really bad whip lash and concision ( but no broken neck so that was good
) , they just sold me a neck brace and ye just kinda was abandoned several valleys away from where i was staying and as i didn't have my bank card i had to Waite in the surgery for my mates to drive 3 hours with my card so i could pay ... then had to go with my prescription to buy proscription pain killers and pay for the neck restraint at the pharmacy.
the insurance just let me claim back the £300 when i got back as the surgery was to small to process the insurance and they just cant be bothered.
the care was pretty awe full tbh all they did was make sure i wasn't in a really bad way didn't check for other things didn't say what to do about the concision or what my mates should do other than if i was sick again come back.... bit shit but i survived haha. and still ride down hill bikes :P
was a total pain in the neck ....