Crucial identity document being abolished

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Clive D. W. Feather wrote:


> Roland Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> 
>> One doesn't normally have to show a passport to get on Eurostar, and by
>> analogy perhaps not on ferries going to the EU (but I've not caught one
>> of them for a *very* long time).
> 
> In June we used a ferry (well, Seacat) to go to France and come back. We 
> were required to show passports and fill in boarding cards both ways.
> 
> We also dropped one person at Marne-la-Vallee to catch the Eurostar 
> home; he had to show his passport.

Maybe I look untrustworthy, but I was refused entry to Eurostar at 
the London end because I forgot my passport, in about 1997 I 
think.   Well before the current scares. I was only going to 
Belgium - I sort of forgot that it counted as foreign.  (I live 
near enough to Waterloo to make it home & back in time, so I 
caught the train)

Ken Brown