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The holiday thread

This year's holiday is Northern Germany, more specifically the island of Rügen in the north east. Lots of beaches and beeches, very cycling friendly and comfortable weather (except for the 35° scorching us today).

The island is a bit of an odd, but charming mix of Denmark, Italy and Germany, with a bit of France thrown in.
 
Robbo said:
This year's holiday is Northern Germany, more specifically the island of Rügen in the north east. Lots of beaches and beeches, very cycling friendly and comfortable weather (except for the 35° scorching us today).

The island is a bit of an odd, but charming mix of Denmark, Italy and Germany, with a bit of France thrown in.
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Always fancied Rugen and the surrounding area and along the baltic coast to St Petersberg as a road trip.
Loop round Finland, Sweden/Norway and back through Denmark.
Not sure about that route with Mad Vlad around mind you.
 
glasgowspur said:
Always fancied Rugen and the surrounding area and along the baltic coast to St Petersberg as a road trip.
Loop round Finland, Sweden/Norway and back through Denmark.
Not sure about that route with Mad Vlad around mind you.
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I think that could be a fantastic road trip. Would probably be best to avoid Russia these days, and instead take a ferry from Tallin to Helsinki, of course.

We're travelling with kids, and took the highway from Kiel to Rügen, otherwise we might've stayed along the coast and spent a few days on the journey. Have heard it's the best part of Northern Germany.

Loving Rügen so far, so it's fine to spend most of our time here. We've seen a lot of the east coast already, and will be going to Bergen and Hiddensee within the next few days. Great laidback atmosphere.
 
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MartyFunkhouser said:
I went to Barcelona for work last November and it was chaos. EU queue, no one, none EU Queue two hours, airport police taking great pleasure in saying "you voted for this"................
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Brexiteers and remainers should be segregated at airports. Obviously it’s up to the airport which queue gets priority.
 
ricky2tricky4city said:
Once you've done the registration...does it last 3 years?
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I think that’s right yes.
When I went to Frankfurt in January I had to give my fingerprints and I think they took a photo as well.
But if I still have to queue behind everyone who hasn’t been through the process yet then that will be a pain. I’ll stick to long haul for a while longer I think. No European games to worry about for the foreseeable.
 
Glenda's Legs said:
I think that’s right yes.
When I went to Frankfurt in January I had to give my fingerprints and I think they took a photo as well.
But if I still have to queue behind everyone who hasn’t been through the process yet then that will be a pain. I’ll stick to long haul for a while longer I think. No European games to worry about for the foreseeable.
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Have they had to set up this process at every EU border point across the continent??

I traveled thru the port at Portsmouth (and Caen) a couple of weeks back, and returned last week (Tuesday) and no sign of this?.

If it lasts 3 years, be handy doing it on a quieter trip.

It must take at least a minute for 1 person to complete...so just 1 plane would use up circa 300 minutes of terminal time. I take it, a machine does the whole thing?
 
BTW....I remember when you would land in France with an empty tank and fill up with diesel as soon as you got off the ferry/tunnel...at least a third cheaper than here.

Not anymore....Shell was 2.7 euros! a litre...many 2.3-2.4 euros ...only Total Energies (weirdly) had a flat price of 2.09 euros at every station (even motorway). Think all their oil ain't from the Gulf.

Supermarket fuel no cheaper (usually the cheapest)

Our Sainsburys was £1.69 when we left just over two weeks ago.
 
ricky2tricky4city said:
Have they had to set up this process at every EU border point across the continent??

I traveled thru the port at Portsmouth (and Caen) a couple of weeks back, and returned last week (Tuesday) and no sign of this?.

If it lasts 3 years, be handy doing it on a quieter trip.

It must take at least a minute for 1 person to complete...so just 1 plane would use up circa 300 minutes of terminal time. I take it, a machine does the whole thing?
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I’m really not sure. It has been slowly introduced over the last year at various entry points but I think this weekend it was rolled out Europe wide (but not sure tbh). At Frankfurt the machine gates weren’t working so we had to do it at the immigration booth.
If we do go to Europe any time soon it wi be outside of school holidays and midweek so hopefully that would be less painful.
 
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