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Portsmouth to Caen on the ferry weekend before last - in France they scanned my passport and checked I matched my passport photo.

Bilbao back to Portsmouth last weekend - the Spanish were photographing nearly everyone. The camera setup is in their border booth so you had to dismount and abandon your bike for a few minutes.
 
Anyone gone into Santander recently?

I’m on the Friday sailing and wondering how long to expect waiting when we arrive. Will be in the car so going to have to sit and queue unfortunately.
 
I was about to apply for my ETIAS and I see it's been deferred until later this year. One less hassle to encounter in that case.
 
I had a terrible journey through the tunnel 3 weeks ago! Arrived 50 mins early, got on an earlier train, through customs in less than 10mins and arrived in France one and a half hours after arriving at the terminal, struggling with 30 degrees and Nebbiolo wine in Piemonte.....oh and the roads are ghastly!
 

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Sneezy Dutch wanted my finger prints and photo at Rotterdam. Blighters wanted my finger prints again when returning at Rotterdam. Didn’t even have the decency to stamp my passport or give me a 👍sticker.
 
I'm at Alicante airport and only a scan of passport for boarding.
 
Who could possibly have predicted that a system put in place solely to punish Brits by the worlds biggest and most sclerotic bureaucracy would be a massive untested fuck up?

“While there were warnings aplenty that EES registration could be a bureaucratic nightmare, Brussels officials continue to promise that clearing immigration on trips to EU countries would become faster.”

 
Busy Eurostar a couple of weeks ago at St Pancras but passport and security took only 15 minutes, similar on return from Amsterdam.
No EES checks at either terminus.
Had passport checked twice whilst on continent though.
 
Arrived in Santander this morning, we were on the floating car deck so last to be let off. Minor queues for passport control but well managed and they were doing EES for half the cars only so we passed through nice and quickly.

34C here today so nearly as warm as back home
 
As widely reported in the mainstream media no sign of any EES stuff coming through Heraklion airport (Greece) last week which, as a Plastic, was very disappointing. :aidan
 
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Monsieur said:
Busy Eurostar a couple of weeks ago at St Pancras but passport and security took only 15 minutes, similar on return from Amsterdam.
No EES checks at either terminus.
Had passport checked twice whilst on continent though.
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Where were the other passport checks?
 
Arrived in Rotterdam Saturday morning
Group of 7
3 of us were quick off the boat and got processed pretty quickly....15 mins

The other 4 were nearly last off....took them 50 minutes

4 lanes open.....2 for EU and 2 for non EU

Lots of bikes and every one was printed and/ or photographed
All car occupants had to go into the booth as well
We were asked where we going in EU
See what the exit is like coming Saturday

It was chuffing hot
 
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Went through Kalamata (Greece) airport today. No EES stuff, but still took an hour...
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We went through Heraklion yesterday. No EES stuff and it took 30 seconds. The fact that it was such a breeze and that when we got to the boarding gate there was only myself, H.R.H. and a young couple from Wales there we were very concerned that we'd missed something, particularly given the bedlam going on elsewhere in the airport.
Sadly the great unwashed shell-suit brigade found us in the end. :D

Next year she's asked if we can go by motorcycle so it must have been bad. :ROFLMAO:
 
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