Dun Laoghaire Port
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Fair play to our Irish Brethern, Internet access in the port car park waiting to get onto the Speeed Cat for the run back to Holyhead!
Just got the run down home after that and then it's six weeks untill we do the journey for what will hopefully be the last time.
Our days in the UK are now officially numbered!
best
Ex
>>> Edited by TheExcession on Sunday 3rd October 10:49
Just got the run down home after that and then it's six weeks untill we do the journey for what will hopefully be the last time.
Our days in the UK are now officially numbered!
best
Ex
>>> Edited by TheExcession on Sunday 3rd October 10:49
Must be all those funny little shrooms we found in the top field!
One last point, almost amusing - on arriving back in Hollyhead and passing through the customs shed we are pulled aside for a quick chat.
At this stage Ms Ex is bricking it since she'd left her passport on the kitchen table and we'd done the outbound trip without her having any photo ID - and no checks!
Anyway they take away my driving licence and one of her bank cards for a check and eventually the guy comes back and says to me would I mind accompanying him into the office for a moment or two?
'Not at all' I say and jump out of the car to follow him. Meanwhile Ms Ex is reaching for the Imodium wondering wtf is going on.
Anyway - I get into their little office and they politely ask me to take a seat and very kindly explain that I resemble the appearance of someone they are looking for - long hair and 1000 miles of driving in 2.5 days don't help appearences.
At this stage I'm utterly relaxed as I know for a fact that there isn't anything for me to worry about - I've had this treatment before, on business going into Perth in Australia, but that's another story.
So, these custom guys ask me if I have any tatoos. 'None at all' I reply, 'Would you mind showing me your arms?' they ask.
'Isn't it great in one of these situations, when you know your ok?' I tell them getting up to remove my coat and roll up my sleeves.
They did well to hide their disappointment and I wished them the very best of luck in catching their man as they led me back out of the building.
Full credit to the boys - they do a thankless task and if they're polite (unlike the Australian bitch that delayed me for over an hour and was just plainly pissed that I'd ruined her mental picture of what drug runners 'might' look like) then I always make a point of saying that I don't mind being delayed by them doing their job.
In the end we had a nice little chat - smiles all round.
Great to see these people behaving in friendly, none judgemental, professional manner.
See? I knew there was a reason I posted this in SP&L first time round!
best
Ex
One last point, almost amusing - on arriving back in Hollyhead and passing through the customs shed we are pulled aside for a quick chat.
At this stage Ms Ex is bricking it since she'd left her passport on the kitchen table and we'd done the outbound trip without her having any photo ID - and no checks!
Anyway they take away my driving licence and one of her bank cards for a check and eventually the guy comes back and says to me would I mind accompanying him into the office for a moment or two?
'Not at all' I say and jump out of the car to follow him. Meanwhile Ms Ex is reaching for the Imodium wondering wtf is going on.
Anyway - I get into their little office and they politely ask me to take a seat and very kindly explain that I resemble the appearance of someone they are looking for - long hair and 1000 miles of driving in 2.5 days don't help appearences.
At this stage I'm utterly relaxed as I know for a fact that there isn't anything for me to worry about - I've had this treatment before, on business going into Perth in Australia, but that's another story.
So, these custom guys ask me if I have any tatoos. 'None at all' I reply, 'Would you mind showing me your arms?' they ask.
'Isn't it great in one of these situations, when you know your ok?' I tell them getting up to remove my coat and roll up my sleeves.
They did well to hide their disappointment and I wished them the very best of luck in catching their man as they led me back out of the building.
Full credit to the boys - they do a thankless task and if they're polite (unlike the Australian bitch that delayed me for over an hour and was just plainly pissed that I'd ruined her mental picture of what drug runners 'might' look like) then I always make a point of saying that I don't mind being delayed by them doing their job.
In the end we had a nice little chat - smiles all round.
Great to see these people behaving in friendly, none judgemental, professional manner.
See? I knew there was a reason I posted this in SP&L first time round!
best
Ex
Streetcop said:
Oh...yes.. ...lots of expensive vehicle seized...
So you think it's funny that servants of the State illegally confiscate the rightfully owned property of innocent members of the public?
I would have thought that phrases like "presumption of innocence" and "due process" would have been at least passingly familiar.
zumbruk said:
So you think it's funny that servants of the State illegally confiscate the rightfully owned property of innocent members of the public?
I find humour in many channels...
(get it..Channels..) zumbruk said:
I would have thought that phrases like "presumption of innocence" and "due process" would have been at least passingly familiar.
Nope...never heard of them.....Are they from 'Dickens'?
>> Edited by Streetcop on Tuesday 5th October 15:00
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