Ours was perfectly legal too. However the French authorities obviously
decided it would do in his cabinet.... 'You are not allowed more than
100ml liquid in cabin luggage!'. I proved that we'd bought it in the
duty free in Havana, but we were NOT allowed it and it was
confiscated! I'm still rather annoyed about it!
Sue in EY
On 10 Mar 2009, at 22:31, Thurlow Weed wrote:
This made me think of a sea voyage I took with my parents in 1977 to
Nassau, Bahamas from Miami. We were all birdwatchers, and my father
had somehow tracked down a birder in Nassau. The gentleman gave my
father, as a gift, a bottle of Cuban rum -- Batista rum! As we came
through Customs in Miami, of course we had nothing to declare, since
the rum was pre-Castro and thus perfectly legal! The Customs agent,
however, was quite prepared to confiscate the rum and write up some
official-looking paperwork, and probably have us all detained for
attempting the smuggled contraband rum into the U.S. However, when
my father pointed out the *date* on the label -- I think it was 1952.
A very disappointed Customs agent! One wonders where that bottle
would have ended up, had it been contraband? In the evidence
locker? or perhaps in the agent's home liquor cabinet...? :)
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