The first team in NBA history to win three straight postseason games by at least 25 points?! JUGGERNAUGHTY!
There is NOTHING* as good as waking up to watch our New York Knicks destroy Jo Embitch and the, frankly shell shocked, Sixers by that sort of glorious margin...
I am here for the sweep! LFG!!
NOTE: I'm a Brit. We did a fairly stupid thing politically a while back and are still suffering from the aftershocks. This is a story about one of those. If ONE of you checks your passport and avoids going through what I had to go through, then my work here is done...
I'm a frequent flyer. This is not a boast, though it is very relevant. I usually fly 20-30 times a year for work mostly, to Europe and the US, occasionally to the Far East.
I know how to travel. I know what to pack. I understand visa requirements. I KNOW WHEN MY PASSPORT EXPIRES. However...
I did NOT realise that, NON EU passport holders traveling to Europe must abide by a rule which states Passports can be NO OLDER than 10 years...
In the heady, pre-Brexit days, it was common practice for British passport expiry to be 'topped up' with the leftover months from your previous passport, meaning it was perfectly normal to have a passport valid for say, 10 years and 10 months... And that was 'fine', because the EU treated us as part of their family... However, once we let our OAPs screw us out of a future due to concocted Daily Telegraph furores about bendy bananas and Polish workers, we had to behave like other countries and abide by a slightly different set of rules.
My Passport EXPIRES in December 2026... 8 months in the future. However it was ISSUED in March 2016, meaning that it was perfectly legal to use for travel ANYWHERE in the world... except to the European Union...
And that, dear reader, is how I found myself, with my 6 year old child, both of us in floods of tears, at the departure gate of a flight to the EU yesterday, unable to fly away for a much needed family break...
TL:DR Thought I knew how to travel. Didn't account for an obscure edge case rule. Fucked up my family holiday.