For last month’s trip to Brussels I stayed at an incompetent hostel. Since I didn’t have enough cash on me when I arrived (and apparently nowhere in Belgium has heard of pin/eftpos/debit cards), they took my Dutch residence permit as bond.

And lost it.

They were awfully apologetic when I went to check out, and got me to write my mobile number on a sheet of paper (in case they found it later that day) along with my postal address (in case they didn’t).

Then they lost the sheet of paper.

So they sent my residence permit to the Dutch embassy in Brussels.

Who hopefully haven’t lost it, but at this point I’m not willing to make any bets…