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Old Jul 13, 2007, 10:39 am
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basia
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
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..just like the Swiss..

One of my cousins had an experience not unlike the OP's crossing the Swiss border - this must have been back in the 80s. The family had been transferred from a UK to an Italian-based position not too long before that, and their son had some friends from Italy over to visit and took them on a trip to Germany. So crossing the border we have
1) one German citizen
2) one or two Brits
3) a Dutch hitchhiker
4) in a car with right-hand steering wheel and
5) Italian license plates
The way I heard the story it took them several hours to get through customs/immigration, and every gum wrapper came in for special scrutiny..
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