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> none of our cars could get over the "hump" between the coaches.

Sounds like feature for the border control to ”randomly” select such cars for a search, to be honest. I don’t think the alcohol-across-borders amounts have changed that much since then.

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Back in the days of peak "booze cruise"[1] the ferry companies used to issue every passenger with a leaflet describing exactly what the duty free limits were. You'd go over, max it out and come back.

If border control were to select on this basis they'd spend all day pulling over bearded men in anoraks driving volvo estates, searching their cars and discovering that they have exactly the "right" amount.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booze_cruise

£10-20 return ferries. Those were the days (or the newspapers' £1 promotions)

£1 promotions practically every week for the locals. I damned near ate French cuisine in Calais on a weekly basis as a kid.

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