FOR ALL EES STUFF, QUESTIONS, CONCERNS, MOANS, JOYS AND ANYTHING ELSE
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Ha ha ha.Apart from dietary requirements
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Splendid 
Indeed. I'm wondering what the practicalities of this will be at Folkestone. I presume (hope) there will be a seperate queue that I can breeze through enabling me to pick the best room at the hotel well in advance of my chums finally arriving at the agreed destination. Or should I just arrive at Folkestone 2 hours after them so we all ride onto the same train at the same time?
Must add, the only time I do struggle with my dietary needs, is in France and even more so in that place that everybody is so in love with, called Spain. Talk about lack of imagination or any understanding what being vegetarian actually means.
I am yet to struggle as much anywhere else in the world (or at least places that I have been to so far). Still, despite off hiccup, I still manage to have a good time, even if I have to have beer and peanuts for din dins.
But we now derailing this thread. Back on topic.
What does, "Willy, standing erect, knocked it out over the covers," mean to you?
That you are being childish?
You must have an Irish Granny somewhere Wapping. Thank goodness for an Irish passport. Though according to my DNA I'm 75% Scottish......... that would explain being opinionated and mean 
it will happen at any entry point to EU or other Schengen states.
At Dover, Eurotunnel & Eurostar, that will be at your port of departure where there are French Douanes. At other places such as Le Havre, Schiphol or Santander you will be providing the biometrics and visa waiver on arrival.
I generally use Portsmouth. Took an hour to get through customs arriving at Caen a few weeks ago. Without this extra red tape.
as I stated above, the resistance from the smaller ports like Caen, Santander and small airports like Memmingen that have maybe one or two non-EU arrivals a day is what has driven the delay in implementation. Cyprus has already refused to be a part of it and there might be more.
Already some grumbling from UK & FR port authorites etc about costs/white elephants if the UK re-negotiates freedom of movement.
That'll not please the hard core brexiter who never has any trouble at the border anyway !!!
Their main concern is the whereabouts of the Japanese Whaling Fleet; and it's proximity to the beach they are currently gracing.
I am going to Norway next May, flying not motorcycle - will this ETIAS shit or whatever affect me?
Herbivore
if it has started, then yes. Norway is not in the EU but like Switzerland, it is in Schengen.
For you, arriving by air, it will probably not make a huge difference, as travellers are processed through the entry and exit controls individually and are (in the main) able to walk to the machines and stand there whilst the electronics and facial scanner do their stuff.
For people in cars, especially those with passengers in the back, it’s not quite so straightforward, obviously. The great thing is that, once you are past the checks and off on the roads of France, you’ll not need to produce your passport again until you reach the borders of Africa and / or Ukraine or Belarus or Russia….. or of course, our fortress island. This privilidged freedom is a great annoyance to some here. But, as several never seem to go anywhere abroad by road (and some, go anywhere at all) they have all the time in the world to sit about at home, getting very cross about all sorts of things.
PS The piss boiling annoyance of bikermates, being told by a machine to take their expensive helmet off their heads, so it can recognise them… Will speak for itself.
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On a plus side, bods can hold their passport in with their teeth and no 19yo snowflake can tell them off at a tea hut, that he/she/they/them is to afraid to touch it in case he/she/they/them might risk catching some unheard disease.
The downside of course is bods getting pissed off for having their liberty vanish and not even flip lid going to save it, is for them having to get off theirhigh horses bikes, and remove their helmets, take their prised possessions with them and then go potentially to stand in the queue, to scan them self through the border, whilst mantra is spinning on repeat in their heads ‘we want our borders back, and Johnny Foreigner can feck right off, as he’s not welcome over here’, our homes, our jobs, our taxes, our benefits …’ all of this whilst checking in to with the autonomous device to go, erm… abroad and be a fecking Johnny Foreigner himself.
The downside of course is bods getting pissed off for having their liberty vanish and not even flip lid going to save it, is for them having to get off their
It is a source of some surprise that my iPhone can recognise me and authorise a payment in a petrol station, even if I have my lid on, flip front open, natch. It also seems to cope with reading glasses and sun glasses. I think it learns, because I’m fairly sure it didn’t when new.
Of course, you’d have to be a very frequent traveller for the ETIAS to recognise you…
