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 > > > 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! > > > > John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 > Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 > PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > New Zealand > > Carter's Clarification of Murphy's Law. > > "Things only ever go right so that they may go more spectacularly > wrong later." > > From this principle, all of life and physics may be deduced. > >
