I’ve the right passport this time so won’t have to turn around… we’re back on the road to Dubrovnik.
We’ve been over this ground before here and how I took myself off the coach from Medjugorje at the first stop.
Because I had my old passport on me with my American visa stamped on it.
With my current one back in the safe in the hostel.
And going through non-EU Bosnia & Herzegovina into EU Croatia requires a passport.
My Queen of Dragons
All of which comes into sharp focus as I take my Queen of Dragons to Dubrovnik today.
On her 30th anniversary trip courtesy of loveholidays.
The boards at Edinburgh Airport remind us to check our passports.
And make sure that if we have new UK passports that they are signed.
To avoid delays at custom checks on the other side.
Much has changed since I last visited the Balkans.
But thankfully not in that fractious but fabulous strip of south-eastern Europe.
Rather back in Britain where since our own return from 13 years in Ireland Boris got Brexit done.
Boris’s Brexit balls-up
And don’t you know Johnson has a book out, Unleashed, brazenly boasting about that.
It’s on sale at WH Smith’s and The Bookshop at Edinburgh Airport and all good stores at 18.99… he needs the money, of course.
So what of this new UK passport they are harking on about here?
Well, it will ensure you longer waits to get through customs.
As you’re filed into the non-integrationist line of European airports.
Just back from Berlin earlier this year I witnessed signs advising to leave an hour to get through customs.
Of course, for those of us who left the club.
Sure, we’re all Irish
I’m not planning, though, on going through the rigmarole of renewing my British passport in three years’ time.
With an unusual source for pushing me to set in motion something I should have done years ago…
Because I owe my much-storied neighbour Royalist Roy for giving me the shove.
When trying to get me around to his house to pledge a troth (no, me neither) to the newly-anointed King Charles.
To make his point, he smilingly asked me how I was described on my passport.
World of Game of Thrones
To be fair he is tending to our front lawn while we’re away.
Royalist Roy that is, not his hero.
While I’m back on the road to Dubrovnik with a passport that will get me through customs.
And where we will explore the world of the Game of Thrones.
And put aside the world of the Shame of Thrones for a week until we return.
Jim and Sarah are staying at the 4* Grand Park Hotel, Dubrovnik for seven nights, H/B with balcony view for £1,121.
With return flights from Edinburgh with EasyJet from under three hours.
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