copyright 2011 Lisa B. Falour, BS, MBA all rights reserved LISA, INC. (EURL) cutecatfaith.com The world is not some amusement park in which your gadgets will likely work. I heard from a YTer recently whose son was here in France, and some of his gadgets were stolen from his hotel room. Hotels will not be responsible for your valuables. The son was probably too confused to know how to go to the police and file a report. You must speak and understand fluent French in order to do this, true. And show your valid ID (passport, stamped and dated upon your arrival) -- you must carry it on you at all times here. Always leave a photocopy of all the pertinent pages with someone you trust who could fax it to the Consulate. If you pay in your local currency and have a photocopy, for American passports, the replacement fee is less and it only takes a few hours. You will have to go out and buy biometric ID photos, and you cannot smile, and your ears must show. No glasses allowed. At the US Consulate in Paris, which is quite a zoo these days and you cannot carry in food nor water and there are no restroom facilities anymore, I've met quite a few people who'd had everything stolen and getting a new passport was costly, took days, and they missed their return flights. Keep a spare photocopy in your luggage, also, of course. You can't be too careful. Even if you find a "taxiphone," the computers there are not secure and the deyboards are azerty. "Taxiphones" do have cabins and calls can be ...
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copyright 2011 Lisa B. Falour, BS, MBA all rights reserved LISA, INC. (EURL) cutecatfaith.com The world is not some amusement park in which your gadgets will likely work. I heard from a YTer recently whose son was here in France, and some of his gadgets were stolen from his hotel room. Hotels will not be responsible for your valuables. The son was probably too confused to know how to go to the police and file a report. You must speak and understand fluent French in order to do this, true. And show your valid ID (passport, stamped and dated upon your arrival) -- you must carry it on you at all times here. Always leave a photocopy of all the pertinent pages with someone you trust who could fax it to the Consulate. If you pay in your local currency and have a photocopy, for American passports, the replacement fee is less and it only takes a few hours. You will have to go out and buy biometric ID photos, and you cannot smile, and your ears must show. No glasses allowed. At the US Consulate in Paris, which is quite a zoo these days and you cannot carry in food nor water and there are no restroom facilities anymore, I've met quite a few people who'd had everything stolen and getting a new passport was costly, took days, and they missed their return flights. Keep a spare photocopy in your luggage, also, of course. You can't be too careful. Even if you find a "taxiphone," the computers there are not secure and the deyboards are azerty. "Taxiphones" do have cabins and calls can be ...
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