OT He just gets dafter

[Capitol]

Yes, I still remember the Hovercraft day out in Boulogne.

[News]

Yes - that facility had been withdrawn before our trip, which was mid or possibly late 80s. He didn't try to get to France for the day without a passport - I think he was worried about getting back to the UK :-) Yes, he would have done so eventually, but didn't want the hassle.

[Bob Eager]

Oh, so do I. 4 metre waves, we were warned.

Two different sizes of craft (inherited from Seaspeed and Hoverlloyd). We got a small one. I was not well.

On the way back, they wouldn't use the small ones as it was too rough. We had to wait for the larger craft.

[Tim Streater]

I had one or two rough, and one or two exceedingly smooth such trips. The smooth ones were really quite amazing.

[damduck-egg]

The British Visitors passport which sounds like what is being mentioned here was withdrawn from the beginning of 1996..

It's not clear though if the chap from Colchester held a passport and just didn't bring it or had none at all. ICBW after all this time but I don't think you should have have applied one if you already held a normal passport though I don't know if there was any mechanism for the post office clerk at the counter to check. Can anyone recall what supporting documentation was needed. A birth certificate was one but not many people keep that with them yet i have a feeling I got one using a driving license when on an impromtu visit to friends in London and seeing a British Railways poster advertising a cheap return fare offer to Amsterdam we decided that would be a fun way to pass the weekend. That was about 1984 and I just popped into a Post office and got one on the way to Liverpool street station.

G.Harman

[dennis]

The last time I went on a ferry almost everyone was being sick including the crew. The smell was making me feel ill so I went outside and watched the waves, the big waves.

[polygonum]

British Visitor's Passport - I came across one of my (very) old ones yesterday.