Phew, we had an eleventh hour crisis tonight as we began packing for Malta. With the suitcases nearly full and all in order I went to get our passports from the file in our drawer. One passport was found – mine, one passport was missing – Matt’s.
We searched the drawer, we searched Matt’s desk, with increasing urgency we searched every inch of the apartment!!! The passport remained missing.
We searched under couches, in kitchen cupboards and behind shelves. Nothing. By this stage we were almost resigned to spending our planned holiday in a NZ embassy instead of Malta.
Matt was about to leave for the office to check his desk there when I asked if he had needed the passport on our weekend road trip around Ireland last month. Yes! He had. Not optimistic that the car rental office would be open at this hour or that they would have seen the passport at all Matt decided to call anyway. What did we really have to lose!?
Imagine our relief when Matt got through to the car rental company and they told him they did have the passport! Yes!
I can’t imagine how we managed to lose such an important document or how we both failed to notice it was missing for so long. I’m just so incredibly thankful that we managed to track it down and will still be going to Malta tomorrow morning as planned. I’m certain we’ll both be keeping a firmer grip on our passports tomorrow.
Comment from Brownie on 2008-09-14
Do Irish car rental companies have a mandatory one month hold period on important travel documents before even attempting to make contact with the owners? Or maybe they’re just lacking intelligence.
Have fun in Malta!