Borders – a Sign of the Times?

Drivelling and wittering on, some more.

Writing up the previous post I accidentally touched upon something since the Brexit-folly happened and the fortress USA dogma has been soap-boxed. I am much more nervous approaching border control than I once was. When the UK was a part of Schengen it was light, free and easy. Now it is much less pleasant. We are due to cross borders in Autumn. In principle I have a British passport so it should be OK for me to go “home”. Will I be allowed back into France? It is less taken-for-granted than it once was. Should we cancel and bin the trip? Just in case?

Gee thanks guys!!

Were I, like Harry, to seek entrance into the USA I might be tempted to lie about weed. Unfortunately I did inhale and deeply so and on more than one occasion. Man…

I would be very, very uncomfortable about traveling to the USA given the prevailing rhetoric. In fact there would have to be some truly massive incentive. Even then I would go out of my way to avoid it. I would seek other avenues.

It is no big loss for the USA…I know.

But I wonder how many others are put off and increasingly so. America will be first and with less visitors. It probably is not quaking in its cowboy boots…

Strange times we live in and they are not getting any more pleasant.

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