Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Border signal
Date: May 28, 2001 @ 08:51
Author: Brendan Whyte ("Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@...>)
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>From: "Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>_________________________________________________________________________
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Border signal
>Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 06:20:28 -0000
>
>I once heard that Swedish passengers traveling to Denmark were at one
>time forced to buy a return ticket, because otherwise they would use
>up all of their money in Denmark to get loaded, leaving the problem
>of getting back to Sweden to the Swedish embassy in Copenhagen, and
>the embassy was getting fed up with it. Is this a true story?
>
>Peter S.
>
>--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Jesper & Nicolette Nielsen"
><jesniel@i...> wrote:
> > Just travelled the dkse border this weekend, a very wet one aprt
>from the bridge. Anyway we were on the boat between Elsinore
>(Helsing�r) - Helsingborg.
> >
> > Strange shopping rules apply as you can only shop taxfree tobaco on
>Swedish side and alcohol on Danish side.
> >
> > So in order to tell the passengers and staff when you sell what a
>border signal is announced (two short beeps).
> >
> > The trip is 22 minutes only.
> >
> > Jesper
>