Spent most of today, 10 hours in all at the police station in the airport cargo area. Seems that shipping a bike into a country, not taking it out of customs then shipping it somewhere else, isn’t the usual thing to do.<\/p>\n
Limited language to ahora, motobicicletta, no comprendo and, no americano gringo yo inglese, doesn’t help matter at all.
\nTwo sniffer dogs (first one was either high or had a cold, couldn’t quite make out the Spanish there either).<\/p>\n
The paperwork and the lyncargo people were great. They even bought in Ingrid, a dusky maiden in tight fitting clothes, high heels etc, to distract the ever growing line of young police who wanted to get involved and thereby delay the process even longer. I know, I really do know, that all they wanted to do was look at the bike, but for 10 soddin hours. Then one wrote inflamable, instead of inflammable on a document, that some beady-eyed hat wearing pseudo important git spotted and said needed changing, requiring umpteen queues to be rejoined for new numbers, copies and signatures.<\/p>\n
I can just hear the flight crew of an airborne inferno screaming, “It was that missing M, that’s why we are all going to die”.<\/p>\n
So, anyway, bike flies tomorrow and so do I.
\nBack to who knows what and for how long?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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