Quote ="JerryChicken"My brother icon_biggrin.gif" alt="icon_biggrin.gif" title="Very Happy" /> 20 years ago we went for a cycling holiday to France - at that point our kid was a world traveller, he had literally hiked around the world twice over the previous five years and had just come back from living in Australia for twelve months - as we got the bikes off the car in Portsmouth he checked his passport, showing off all of his fancy visas and entry/exit stamps against mine which had only seen Spain at that time, then he noticed that his passport had expired three months earlier. This was in 1993 and perhaps they weren't as vigilant, but we continued on our journey to France and he went through four passport checks without anyone noticing icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> Anyway, mine expires in September and I'm not renewing it, not for £80 I'm not, I don't need a passport to identify myself, I know who I am, its them who have the problem and if they want me to carry a document to prove what I already know then they can pay for the f**kin thing themselves. icon_evil.gif" alt="icon_evil.gif" title="Evil or Very Mad" />'" icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> This is up there with some of the best things I've read on RLFans. Top stuff. icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" />

Quote ="JerryChicken"My brother icon_biggrin.gif" alt="icon_biggrin.gif" title="Very Happy" /> 20 years ago we went for a cycling holiday to France - at that point our kid was a world traveller, he had literally hiked around the world twice over the previous five years and had just come back from living in Australia for twelve months - as we got the bikes off the car in Portsmouth he checked his passport, showing off all of his fancy visas and entry/exit stamps against mine which had only seen Spain at that time, then he noticed that his passport had expired three months earlier. This was in 1993 and perhaps they weren't as vigilant, but we continued on our journey to France and he went through four passport checks without anyone noticing icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> Anyway, mine expires in September and I'm not renewing it, not for £80 I'm not, I don't need a passport to identify myself, I know who I am, its them who have the problem and if they want me to carry a document to prove what I already know then they can pay for the f**kin thing themselves. icon_evil.gif" alt="icon_evil.gif" title="Evil or Very Mad" />'" icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> This is up there with some of the best things I've read on RLFans. Top stuff. icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" />

Quote ="JerryChicken"To be honest that really doesn't bother me anymore, there are lots of places in the UK that I haven't seen properly yet including any part of Scotland thats north of Stirling, disgraceful I ">know.'" Staggering, that's the best bit. Quote ="JerryChicken"As for the usual "Ah but we don't get the weather..." well we do, the weather is what makes this country so fascinating '" We are in the middle of a heatwave here, if it were London you'd see the "cor what a scorcha" headlines, as it is they just burn and get on with it here. Quote ="JerryChicken"The only slight snag will be when my company send me to a job on a nuclear power station again as you need a passport as proof of ID and they have to pre-book you using your passport number, in fact I'm looking forward to seeing if the combination of private security and British armed police can spot that my passports expired icon_biggrin.gif" alt="icon_biggrin.gif" title="Very Happy" />'" Your company needs it then invoice them for it. But I'm guessing no icon_wink.gif" alt="icon_wink.gif" title="Wink" />

Quote ="JerryChicken"To be honest that really doesn't bother me anymore, there are lots of places in the UK that I haven't seen properly yet including any part of Scotland thats north of Stirling, disgraceful I ">know.'" Staggering, that's the best bit. Quote ="JerryChicken"As for the usual "Ah but we don't get the weather..." well we do, the weather is what makes this country so fascinating '" We are in the middle of a heatwave here, if it were London you'd see the "cor what a scorcha" headlines, as it is they just burn and get on with it here. Quote ="JerryChicken"The only slight snag will be when my company send me to a job on a nuclear power station again as you need a passport as proof of ID and they have to pre-book you using your passport number, in fact I'm looking forward to seeing if the combination of private security and British armed police can spot that my passports expired icon_biggrin.gif" alt="icon_biggrin.gif" title="Very Happy" />'" Your company needs it then invoice them for it. But I'm guessing no icon_wink.gif" alt="icon_wink.gif" title="Wink" />

Quote ="Big Graeme"Staggering, that's the best ">bit.'" I have to sort this out, the furthest north Ive been was when I went to Andy Murrays hotel nr Stirling earlier this year and the scenery was building up nicely then, worse still my wife works for a group of Scottish hotels and she gets a decent staff discount - and we STILL havent taken advantage yet - I could organise a really nice 7 day round trip around the highlands ending up on Skye, all at half price!!

Quote ="Big Graeme"Staggering, that's the best ">bit.'" I have to sort this out, the furthest north Ive been was when I went to Andy Murrays hotel nr Stirling earlier this year and the scenery was building up nicely then, worse still my wife works for a group of Scottish hotels and she gets a decent staff discount - and we STILL havent taken advantage yet - I could organise a really nice 7 day round trip around the highlands ending up on Skye, all at half price!!

my mate has had to pay £68 to get it fast tracked and delivered tomorrow morning before 9am.... looks like he will be coming afterall!

It took 6 weeks for my grandson's first passport to be produced. My daughter knew not to book the holiday until she'd got her hands on the passport but she'd booked time off work, wouldn't have been able to re-arrange it. Hence she travelled to Durham to pick it up before booking the holiday and flying the following day. They tried to charge her for fast tracking it but when she pointed out how long they'd been waiting they backed down.

my mates passport arrived friday morning... flying out tomorrow icon_biggrin.gif" alt="icon_biggrin.gif" title="Very Happy" /> he paid the £68 for fast track but sure he qualified to get it done for free but thats his problem...hes just happy to get it now!

my mates passport arrived friday morning... flying out tomorrow icon_biggrin.gif" alt="icon_biggrin.gif" title="Very Happy" /> he paid the £68 for fast track but sure he qualified to get it done for free but thats his problem...hes just happy to get it now!