Lost V5, impending trip, stuck in Canada. Please advise

[redcoat]

I used to live in the Uk and left my CD200T with my granny. I SORN'ed it before I left for Canada a year ago. The Sorn reminder won't come in the mail till Oct. My Granny died 6 weeks ago, and the bike went to a family friend in Wales, as her house was sold. All the docs that were with the bike have, I have been told, been lost in moving the bike from Ganny's to Wales.

My friend in Wales, knowing of my planned trip to France in Sept, has had the bike MOT'ed (day's before granny dies). No problem getting insurance over the phone from my agent, and the docs mailed to my friend in Wales.

However, to get a tax disk, I need the V5, and it's gone.

I've filled out a V62 change of address, V5 replacement form, and posted it from here in Canada. I am told it will take 4 weeks or so. I worry that it will not get to the Welsh address in time for my trip, and that they will query why I am writing from Canada, asking for the V5 to go to a Welsh address.

I've communicated by e-mail with the DVLA. They are not forthcoming with advice. However, their website says I can get a tax disk by doing the V62 change of address form in person at a DVLA office, AS LONG AS I have evidence I live at that address. Little hard as I don't live there yet, and don't intend to, except collect the bike, wish the folks well, and head for the Med.

Q: Will I have problems in France or Italy with only insurnace, a tax disk and a receit from the DVLA that I applied for a V5? (if they give me such...)

Q: Can I get the DVLA to issue a temp V5 for travel on the spot or that day?

Q: How long does it take to get a V5 if I go into a DVLA office like Shrewsbury (I've been promised a ride there)- a day or so in the post? Weeks?

Q: How sticky will the DVLA be about proving my address? Bring the family friend along to vouch for me that I live at the same residence (sort of)?

Thanks forr reading this far. I get paranoid when it come to govt offices.

Justin