Cattle trains
One can travel from Portugal to the north of Sweden without once having to bother showing one’s passport – or anything else, for that matter.
However, to travel from Paris to London, as I discovered recently, involves being herded like cattle through restricted areas with platforms protected (from whom I do not know) with razor wire and the like.
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Hide AdWhat the cost of these installations is I do not know but they cannot be insignificant.
As far as I can see, nothing is achieved except the delaying of trains and the irritation of those who pay for this nonsense: the taxpayers and travellers.
bRANISLAV SUDJIC
Hunter Street
Kirkcaldy, Fife