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Looks like an entertaining and educational sheep farm visit. So I wonder, when everyone gets back home to the USA, will they check Yes on the customs entry form that asks if they visited a farm overseas? Unless your trip was strictly within some capitol city or you stayed inside a car on the Autoroute/Motorway/Autobahn, a visit to Europe will likely include being at, or very near, farmland. Even an on-site tasting at a vineyard in France, checking out a Stone Age fort in Western Ireland, or bicycling along a lane in Flanders involves visiting movie scripts the firm tom cruise farmland or stepping over or riding around sheep and cattle droppings out in the country. The deal is, checking Yes subjects you to intense scrutiny from the US Customs people at the airport at home, as if you must be smuggling contraband produce or you re transporting pathogens or noxious seeds or spores on your clothes, shoes, and baggage that will kill or overrun native American species. After our last unpleasant experience upon landing home following a bike tour thru West Ireland, movie scripts the firm tom cruise my wife has insisted I check no in the future, even if we ve stayed for a week at an agriturismo. I wonder if we lived in California if it would be even worse, where the one thing that can t make it past the state border is outside fruits/vegetables? US customs officials are far meaner movie scripts the firm tom cruise than any I ve encountered in Europe or Asia. I wonder how they treat visitors to the US, and if it s just travelling Americans who get such rude treatment movie scripts the firm tom cruise when arriving home?
I stayed on a farm in the north of England in the late 90 s that was right out of a James Herriot story complete with gates and dogs. In the morning I woke up to sheep everywhere. They had come down from the fell and were quite the noisy bunch.
I am not sure I agree with the farmer s condemnation of national parks. I ve walked in areas with sheep in Scotland and areas without. There s a difference and we probably need parts of Scotland for both.
I have followed you for years and frankly it upsets me that you go where you go, do what you do and, most important, earn a living form such a magnificent idea know as your profession. Of course, everything I say here is from pure jealousy and admiration.
Well, Nancy, I ve never smuggled in plants or beef (diseased or otherwise), so I guess we re both idiots movie scripts the firm tom cruise for following the rules. Having walked a short distance in a sheep pasture to visit a Stone Age fort with a Rick-Steves-recommended guide, thus visiting a farm in Ireland, I checked on my US re-entry form that I d been to a farm, although 2 weeks had passed and my bags and shoes had been on and off buses and planes, and back in urban areas. Our wonderful customs movie scripts the firm tom cruise personnel greeted me rudely and subjected me, my shoes, and my bag to intense movie scripts the firm tom cruise scrutiny, apparently testing for traces of some substance and found NOTHING. If the exterior of my luggage (which did not accompany me onto the farm) was so potentially dangerous, then every other bag in the plane s baggage compartment should ve been quarantined in case my suitcase had infested them, too. Glad you re so perfect that you can make assumptions about me, but YOU may have had a more negative effect on the condition of this earth than YOU realize. And, regardless, that still leaves the USA with comparitively movie scripts the firm tom cruise rude, surly customs agents I wonder if they re reacting to having encountered you sometime?