*** OFFICIAL BREXIT SUNLIT UPLANDS and #MEGA THREAD ***

[Poopadoop]

I'm really not sure how a newspaper feels it's in the public interest to report on a bored family in a queue at a port.

Yea, because the point of the story is to get to know this one family better, not to report on the longest queues ever at Dover.

Plenty of people have waited longer than six hours to enter a port.

Really? Where? I've waited at an aiport for customs a couple of hours tops. I've never waited 6 hours to exit/enter a country.

She's come from the Netherlands. If I were making that journey, I'd just sail from Amsterdam or Rotterdam and drive from Yarmouth to the South Coast, and then moan about the queues on the M25 instead of at Dover.

Good thinking Captain Hindsight. So your answer is to take a hours-long detour to get hom rather than sit for hours in a queue in Dover, like that's some kind of solution.

[OngBonga]

Good thinking Captain Hindsight. So your answer is to take a hours-long detour to get hom rather than sit for hours in a queue in Dover, like that's some kind of solution.

If there's any kind of warning, then yes, absolutely. It's not even that long a detour. Which drive is furthest? Yarmouth to Portsmouth? Or Amsterdam to Calais? Surely the drive across three counties in England is shorter than spanning Belgium. The ferry crossing is much longer, granted, but that's a good time to rest instead of a relatively short crossing with no sleep.

If I need to go to France, then I would certainly do my best to not go Dover-Calais, because it's hell, and always has been, because everyone wants to take that route.

[OngBonga]

And if I needed to go to Amsterdam, then I'm definitely not going Dover-Calais, I'll either fly or go via the East coast directly to Netherlands. Or just get the train from London.

[OngBonga]

Lol I just did a distance check on both those routes by car and the Great Yarmouth to Portsmouth drive is one minute shorter than Amsterdam to Calais.

I said it was quicker.

I mean, a lot here depends on if you actually like sailing on a ferry. If so, then the Amsterdam to Great Yarmouth route is much more enjoyable than Calais to Dover, which is full to the brim with holidaymakers and their kids. If you're a holidaymaker with kids, then please go that route and leave the other routes congestion free, thanks.

[Poopadoop]

Lol I just did a distance check on both those routes by car and the Great Yarmouth to Portsmouth drive is one minute shorter than Amsterdam to Calais.

I said it was quicker.

I mean I'll have to take your word for it because I've never even heard of Great Yarmouth. But presumably they have to go through customs there too? So not sure how that make things any faster.

Also your hypothetical longer than 6 hours wait at a customs check seems made up, since you're just saying it happens rather than quoting a specific instance. I mean I guess if there's a hurricane you may get delayed, or if your plane goes down in the channel. That's not what's happened here, obv. it's due to the Brexit and the fact you have to have your passport checked now to go to the EU ldo.