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Paul Heiney

‘Those meetings marked a moment of triumph as a foreign cruise was completed’

I f there are any children reading this, you may not remember the days when ‘going foreign’ involved face to face time with a customs officer. You couldn’t do customs online back then because the only thing than ran on lines were trams; you had to ‘clear in’ and ‘clear out’, until we joined Europe and that smoothed things out. But now that we’ve left, the customs officer may once

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