I have a passport...

[maxcelcat]

My family is one of contrasts.

My sister has lived overseas for the best part of a decade. She's currently in Yemen, but has also been in Afghanistan and Indonesia. And might be off to Sudan soon.

I just got my first ever passport. I've never had one before. I've received packages that are better traveled than me... And now I'm about to apply for a Dutch one! I probably have sufficient Dutch ancestors to entitle me to one. Hmmmmm... European Union Passport... Long working holiday here I come!

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[smegforbrains83.livejournal.com]

yikes!!!

hmmm i'm not as well travelled as your sister but i did get my first passport at the ripe old age of 9.

however... had my father not moved overseas to marry an american woman i wouldn't have travelled overseas till i was at least 18 i would imagine as both of my parents are afraid of flying they don't do it all that often

dutch passport eh? i wonder how hard they are to get????

i've been trying to get a british passport - my dad was born over there - but being a bastard myself makes this rather difficult.

boo hiss!!! (to the evil consulate)

[maxcelcat]

I've never been overseas, I think I'm over compensating for my much travelled family (my sister is only one example.)

Getting a Dutch passport hinges on the Netherlands believing my mother is still Dutch - which apperently they do. I have to fill in a bunch of forms and see if it floats :-)

I don't think you're a bastard :-)

[smegforbrains83.livejournal.com]

i'm not just a bastard

sometimes i masquerade as a bitch

*boom* *tish*

i'm here till friday try the mock veal

[http://users.livejournal.com/_megalomania_/]

received packages that are better traveled than me...

So glad I'm not the only one! I can claim I've travelled overseas but really it's a technicality, since I was born overseas and we moved to Australia. Still...when I say it most people tend to assume I've been backpacking around Europe or something and I don't think it's my place to tell them the cold hard truth :P

I keep wanting to get a passport. I've never had one either.

Get one.

[maxcelcat]

Seriously, go get one, it feels good, even if you have no plans to go anywhere.

Be warned though - they're not cheap these days! Mine was $193!!!

Re: Get one.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_megalomania_/]

Ouch! That's a lot! *flails sadly* :(

If and when I can afford one, I'll get one. I just have to start being a good girl and saving all my money up (and of course that'll happen right around the time you see pigs flying around outside the window *sigh*). I think if I got one I'd feel obligated to make some sort of plan to go somewhere. Otherwise it'd stare at me and make me feel guilty.

Cos...passports do that, you know :P

Re: Get one.

[maxcelcat]

My passport is sitting around my flat, making me feel guilty even as we speak. So I'm having to start making plans - Europe in 2008 maybe!

I could go to London and spend a month just catching up with all my friends there.

As for money... $193 is not really that much. As for saving it... I've been working for over ten years and have what is officially called diddly to show for it.

Re: Get one.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_megalomania_/]

I don't suppose I could stow away in your suitcase for that Europe 2008 trip, could I? *looks pitiful*

I'd love to go back to England and see some of the places I remember...and then travel around Europe. Unfortunately my bank account screams whenever I so much as buy a pack of loo roll so it's out of the question right now. Unless I resort to a life of crime ;)

I think I'd like to go to Sydney next year. I know I don't need a passport for it but...at least I'd get to go somewhere and I haven't seen much of Sydney (outside of coach terminals and other scary places). It'd be nice to go and explore. Hmm. I typed that as "go and explode". How odd! :P