I never knew...

....getting out of France would be so difficult without a passport.

Lets see if it gets any easier when the boat arrives in England

 

You're supposed to head to Sangatte and then smuggle yourself in in the
back of a lorry, you ninny!

 

Champ escribió:

Heh. ID cards - the way forward. Oh and hurry up, we're waiting to see the
pictures.

 

You made one as well? Good man.

I'd say.

 

Last time I did it, it was a doddle, but having been over to France in
the last few days, I see now that they have *both* French and UK
passport people on *both* sides of the Channel, now. When I did my
Passport Muppet thing on the French Run a couple of years ago, the
French waved me through on the UK side and the British just asked me
for some ID, told me not to be so silly next time, and waved me
through on the French side.

Same thing happened when YTC forgot his passport, a decade or so ago.

I'm awaiting your next posting with keen interest.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, SIRPip

Well, after all the time we spent agreeing the back-story and creating
the evidence trail, it seemed rude not to.

 

<Emails Dover customs>

 

Yes, that's probably more like it, actually.

 

<Bad form post>

I remember now. I borrowed an expired passport off a colleague to get
him out of Blighty. I was editing Freight at the time, and I moved
jobs to where I am now in 2001, so it was indeed about ten years ago.
Must have been around 1999-2000.

 

I've been through the channel tunnel in the boot of a car for "passport"
reasons. It was cozy.

 

This was supposed to be an email, right?

 

Like I said, I borrowed a passport off a colleague. She left the outfit
about a year before I did. I left in 2001.

2001, summer, no later than. So about a decade, as I said, definitely
not five years, but you're always right, so wtf.

 

<Slaps head>

So she left a few months before I did. Still, a decade ago.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, SIRPip

Oh, DAMN!

Still, never mind, they don't have the Internet in Yarl's Wood, so he'll
never find out.

 

Don't forget the R1.

 

What R1?

 

It was April 2001.

 

Here's the final paragraph in a post on the subject ... ironic, given
the author.

"So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen: the full unabridged
version of UKRM does Dunkirk 2001. Accept no imitations. Anything
else they tell you is a bunch of cobblers. "

 

Well, you did have that R1...

 

Yeah, and Bruce's masterstroke was two months later

http://tinyurl.com/35ap662

But, hey, he's always right, so obviously this is a forgery.