Emigrant Passport

Today has been a day of faffing... We woke up quite late and decided to go down town to buy some clothes for our holiday in Croatia. I also had to pick up my new passport and unregister [or register as an emigrant depending on how you view this]. It felt a bit strange to do this also because it's so definite. I had pictures taken for my new passport and did not really like them but when I saw my passport I was very happy with it.

The 'new' design is awesome and I'm happy to get one before I leave. Next time, which will be in another ten years I will receive the digital passport which will be introduced in October this year. Weird new rules apply for having pictures taken and one of them is that you are no longer allowed to smile. A shame really, people will look quite grumpy then, don't you think? Also if you wear glasses you will have to take them off. I think it's a bit exaggerated to be honest. Anyway I have mine and it looks great, if I have my scanner set up again I will try to scan it [which is probably illegal but who gives a shit]

I need to register as an emigrant in order to cancel all my insurances over here. A. already took care of insurances abroad so we don't have to worry about it, including health insurance which is great because I wasn't sure about what type of insurance I had to apply for but this is arranged through the company he's going to work for. I still have to write a few letters and mail them off asap, that will be the last thing to do, last bit of paperwork over here. I will receive some tax papers once we've moved but that won't be much of a problem. I'll bring over all the papers that I'll need anyway.

We went to town to buy some clothes at Esprit. I saw a beautiful dress and A. wanted to give it to me but I thought it was way to expensive. I'd rather go to this second hand store, they sell stuff that is sometimes brand new and I've found some really nice things on several occasions. My gut feeling is telling me to go and see what is there because so far I've always succeeded. I could buy about five dresses for the one we saw at Esprit. So on our way back home we drove by the second hand store but unfortunately the owner had to go to the hospital so he was closing earlier. I'll try again another day.

We ended up being stuck in a traffic jam so we went to Dina's studio instead which is just around the corner. We had coffee and stayed for a while having a relaxed day for a change...