Hi,
Years ago my brother got across Europe on a south island passport (on of the
ones that where around in the 80's)

Maurice

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Carter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, 24 June 2005 3:45 p.m.
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [OT] Public Liability - was Re: telecom outage - Some
> history
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>
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Shane wrote:
>
> > Any takers to help organise a letter, partition...?
>
> Now there's a notion, perhaps it was a just typo and not a notion, but it
> triggers distant memories none the less...
>
> There is a small fishing and tourism town near Capetown in South Africa
> called Houtbay.
>
> During the Apartheid Era, as a semi-serious protest come public relations
> stunt, they ceremonially "cut the telephone cable" to Pretoria and printed
> their own passports.
>
> As far as I know they didn't actually cut the real cable, just
> symbolically.
>
> And the passports?
>
> As far as I know several blokes are trying to see how far around
> the world
> they can get on a Houtbay passport!
>
>
>
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