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A day with an American tourist
It's slider Sunday so:-
One day back in 2018 my wife and I got up really early on a Saturday to 'entertain' an American colleague of mine.
We drove to Guildford to meet him and then to Bath to visit the historic Roman Baths. It was a fun day out.
On the way back we detoured to Stonehenge, for me, the hope of some epic photography.......
As we left my colleague suddenly said "I've lost my passport".
We raced back to the car and checked, we went back to the visitor center and checked but it was 'lost'.
We sat in my car for an hour to the UK 'none' emergency police but they couldn't help, our Office manager got dragged in and she spent her Saturday afternoon checking everywhere for us and within an hour had an appointment with the US embassy for Monday morning, but the passport was 'gone'.
We had a long silent drive back to Guildford and a not so great evening meal, it was a 'long' day!
Sunday morning my 'colleague' phones me up and says that a family in Bristol had found his passport on the banks of the river in Bath. They had handed it in to the Bristol Police and amazingly tracked him down on Facebook and let him know, even the Police case number.
Monday morning was a long and 'expensive' taxi ride to Bristol for my colleague to get his passport back. He eventually made his Sunday flight back to the US, on the Wednesday.
So the moral of the story:- keep your passport in a zipped pocket at 'all' times, and :- aren't people just wonderful, that they would bother to track and find someone through Facebook to get them their passport back!
As a company, we sent them flowers as a thank you.
And Harold, if you ever read this, my wife and I still talk about it .... :-)
A day with an American tourist
It's slider Sunday so:-
One day back in 2018 my wife and I got up really early on a Saturday to 'entertain' an American colleague of mine.
We drove to Guildford to meet him and then to Bath to visit the historic Roman Baths. It was a fun day out.
On the way back we detoured to Stonehenge, for me, the hope of some epic photography.......
As we left my colleague suddenly said "I've lost my passport".
We raced back to the car and checked, we went back to the visitor center and checked but it was 'lost'.
We sat in my car for an hour to the UK 'none' emergency police but they couldn't help, our Office manager got dragged in and she spent her Saturday afternoon checking everywhere for us and within an hour had an appointment with the US embassy for Monday morning, but the passport was 'gone'.
We had a long silent drive back to Guildford and a not so great evening meal, it was a 'long' day!
Sunday morning my 'colleague' phones me up and says that a family in Bristol had found his passport on the banks of the river in Bath. They had handed it in to the Bristol Police and amazingly tracked him down on Facebook and let him know, even the Police case number.
Monday morning was a long and 'expensive' taxi ride to Bristol for my colleague to get his passport back. He eventually made his Sunday flight back to the US, on the Wednesday.
So the moral of the story:- keep your passport in a zipped pocket at 'all' times, and :- aren't people just wonderful, that they would bother to track and find someone through Facebook to get them their passport back!
As a company, we sent them flowers as a thank you.
And Harold, if you ever read this, my wife and I still talk about it .... :-)