Good god, how do people afford this stuff??
I've never had a passport, I used to be on my parents' passports back when it was OK to do that.
My wife's ran out about five years ago, so here we are, a man, wife and child without passports.
We're thinking of some overseas travel at some point and this thread made me look into it.
£72 for an adult passport? And I need to muck about getting my photo signed by someone that personally knows me but also has standing in the community, and on top of that I would have to attend an interview to prove my identity since it is my first passport.
But there's worse, much worse.....
My ten month old son's passport would cost £46. And after five years I would need to renew it at the cost of £46!
So I will have the initial outlay of £190 to kit my family out, with the knowledge that in five years I will have to spend £46 again. And who knows? In those five years we have ended up not actually going anywhere!
Crazy. Absolutely crazy.