But when I opened it up earlier this week – for ID purposes – a reminder of pre-pandemic life fell out. My boarding pass for the second leg of a flight to Nur-Sultan. Or, as football fans know it, Astana.
The past, they say, is a foreign country. In this case, the country in question was Kazakhstan: the final place I travelled to before the pandemic really hit the United Kingdom.
Norwich away, United's next Premier League game, always brings long, far-flung trips like that to mind. Sure, East Anglia is hardly the ends of the earth – it just feels like it.