This close call offers something to think about when next the school phone to say your child got a fracture playing rugby:
A neighbour's son was doing his 'gap year' and living in Christchurch New Zealand when the earthquake of March 2011 hit. He escaped harm but his hostel was demolished with all his possessions lost in the rubble.
A neighbour's son was doing his 'gap year' and living in Christchurch New Zealand when the earthquake of March 2011 hit. He escaped harm but his hostel was demolished with all his possessions lost in the rubble.
Happy to be alive, the lad was left owning a shirt and a key to a door for a room that doesn't exist.
The British government stepped up their consular help for such misfortune. The lad needs a passport to replace the one lost in the building. So extra Foreign Office people are on hand to add to his misfortune with an invoice for a £200 replacement fee.
Hmm.
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