Passport, check

The weather was nice for a change today, so I decided to go and apply for a new passport. The embassy in Ottawa and the consulate in Toronto don't serve citizens of Finland residing in British Columbia, so it was for a long time a mystery to me who would - it turned out that there's a Honorary Consulate General of Finland in Vancouver where I can apply for a passport. That's a very fancy title, but the office was a very small one - albeit on a very good place on West Georgia and Bute - it had two rooms, that they shared with, believe it or not, the Honorary Consulate General of Sweden.

I got my passport photos taken, and I'm fairly happy with them which is good as I need to look at it for the next ten years - and I'm glad to get rid of the old one. The service was very friendly (which it never was in London) and I spoke with another Finnish lady who had lived in Vancouver for 30 years who was also applying for a new passport.

While waiting I was flipping through a free newspaper 24 Hours and I found that small snippet of news on the left. This must have been the incident that took place outside our window the other day - and I'm relieved to hear that shots weren't actually "real" gunshots.