Keep your passport as a precious gem…
When you travel you see passports of fellow travelers; even at Immigration you see people handing over that important document and sometimes I think, 'what on earth have you done with that?'
Messy, crumpled, stained, ears in the corners, really, like they've wiped their behinds with them. Well, not quite, but sometimes they're too greasy to handle.
And if you treat it like that, it can suddenly have a crack in it. That happened to a British yoga teacher in Bangkok who wanted to fly home via India. The check-in desk refused her, because they were afraid that India would refuse her and then she would have to go back to Bangkok. 'You just buy a direct flight to England' was the comment, because you can enter your home country with a damaged passport.
But it can get much worse. Someone let their child play with the passport and that… no, I won’t spoil it, check out the link and scroll down a bit on page 2…
So keep an eye on your belongings!
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Laughing at that photo of the passport.
Yes, you have those moments during a holiday when it all becomes too much and you no longer have the reins in your hands properly.
I know of an example in a Moo Baan here where someone rented out his recently renovated second home and threw them out again after three days.
Reason the twins had 'adapted' the bedroom by raising the crayons to a height of about a meter [5555]
First of all, passports are not toys.
And if you deliberately let a child play with your passport, then you are not quite right in my opinion.
A passport remains the property of the state at all times
Gr. Arno
I travel quite a bit, but I also regularly see with tears in my eyes how customs personnel handle my passport. Especially in Eastern Europe and Africa.