Sunday October 29 2017 18:41, you wrote to Robert Bashe:
> But getting in this time really was a farce...
> 1) My granddaughter took an apple she got on the plane and was eating > it while queueing for immigration. Based upon that we were ushered > into a quarantaine zone. Our suitcase was emptied as well as our 2 > small backpacks. Granddaughter had playdoh with her and it was > analysed for drugs. Finally the head customs guy had a brain and > considered it a non-event and let us go ... with the half eaten apple. > I already had visions of 10-15 forced labor
> 2) Upon passing security the scanner noticed some oddity between my > legs and for the first time in my life I had another male hold my > scrotum in his hands. That was a sensation ("slap my butt buddy")
> 3) My granddaughter's backpack again was stopped by security. The 20 > small vials of Playdoh again came out and this time were scrutinised, > by the most uggly woman I've seen whose face propably was used for > sorting shit, for explosives.
> The paranoia knows no end ...
They clearly do not want tourists / visitors entering their country these days. At my age I have better things to do than waiting 2 - 4 hours trying to enter country spending my money :(
Try Canada - they seems to be more sensible - well I hope so as we are going next summer for a wedding and I might even try out the scenic train services.
Vince
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