{"id":2139,"date":"2006-01-31T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/2006\/01\/31\/the-beetle-struggles-with-australiancustoms\/"},"modified":"2018-01-02T16:43:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T16:43:21","slug":"the-beetle-struggles-with-australiancustoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/the-beetle-struggles-with-australiancustoms.html","title":{"rendered":"The Beetle Struggles with Australian\n Customs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n My arrival into Sydney at 5. 30am on a June Sunday<br \/>\n morning did not bode well as a sign of enjoying my week long stay in<br \/>\n Australia. After waiting patiently in a queue to get through<br \/>\n immigration, I went down to the baggage claim. No sooner had<br \/>\n I got<br \/>\n there when I got taken aside by Customs and frisked &#8211; arms and legs<br \/>\n splayed and repeatedly asked what I had in my luggage though it had not<br \/>\n arrived. I noticed other arrivals<br \/>\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/pictures\/2006\/2006-01-enews-image012.jpg\" alt=\" \" class=\"pic\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"12\" \/><br \/>\n from<br \/>\n the same plane look me up and down and give me a wide berth.<br \/>\n Did I have<br \/>\n alcohol, cigarettes, perfume, or anything else over the limit or<br \/>\n anything else that I should have declared?\n <\/p>\n<p>\n I had none of these items and the aggressive<br \/>\n questioning really irritated me, even more so because I was sitting<br \/>\n next to 2 lovely men from Croatia on the plane from Singapore, and they<br \/>\n were both carrying about 12 bottles of plum brandy each, from their<br \/>\n family trip home to Zagreb, and I was carrying absolutely nothing<br \/>\n incriminating whatsoever! The woman asked to see my passport and took<br \/>\n an inordinate amount of time flipping each page over and an almost<br \/>\n audible tut could be heard as she flicked through. My Customs<br \/>\n card was<br \/>\n in my passport and she took it out and wrote something on it.<br \/>\n I could<br \/>\n not quite make out what, but it looked like a number. Talk<br \/>\n about having<br \/>\n your card marked. She handed my passport back to me and left<br \/>\n me without<br \/>\n saying a word so I went over to the luggage carousel and<br \/>\n waited.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/pictures\/2006\/2006-01-enews-image013.jpg\" alt=\" \" class=\"pic\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n Whilst<br \/>\n waiting for my luggage to arrive, I got talking to a lady in a<br \/>\n wheel chair and helped her with her luggage when I caught the same<br \/>\n Customs woman watching me with a beady look in her eye. I<br \/>\n then realised<br \/>\n I was in for the long run here at Sydney airport and thought back about<br \/>\n why she had descended on me, why she was being so rude and aggressive<br \/>\n and why she had picked me out. Maybe because I looked<br \/>\n slightly<br \/>\n dishevelled after the overnight flight, maybe because my passport has a<br \/>\n lot of stamps in it or maybe she just doesn&#8217;t like Beetles &#8211; who knows,<br \/>\n I will never find out.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n My luggage arrived, just a small suitcase (with a suit,<br \/>\n shoes, couple of books, jeans, jumpers and that really was about it),<br \/>\n and when I got to the Customs post, the inspector looked at my Customs<br \/>\n form, I noticed the same Customs woman walking towards me and then I<br \/>\n was promptly handed back to her with no words, no explanation and taken<br \/>\n away into a side area. The whole thing had an Orwellian feel<br \/>\n to it.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/pictures\/2006\/2006-01-enews-image014.jpg\" alt=\" \" class=\"pic\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"12\" \/><br \/>\n I<br \/>\n was instructed to open my own luggage, but not to touch anything<br \/>\n inside. If I hadn&#8217;t been so tired, it would have been quite<br \/>\n funny,<br \/>\n because she was so dramatic, barking orders like I&#8217;d just arrived in<br \/>\n prison and had to obey without question. Back pack first,<br \/>\n then luggage.<br \/>\n Item no 1 in my day pack: yummy biscuits from Singapore for the journey<br \/>\n I&#8217;d planned to make to the Blue Mountains. The female customs<br \/>\n official<br \/>\n tried to confiscate my chocolate chip shortbread biscuits bought in<br \/>\n Singapore for the long airport wait and I&#8217;d forgotten to eat them, by<br \/>\n claiming them to be &#8216;food&#8217; &#8211; I agreed and said yes, shortbread is food,<br \/>\n but they are unopened and totally allowed. I asked her if she<br \/>\n wanted<br \/>\n one and she sourly said that she could not accept food because it might<br \/>\n be poisoned. My day dreaming got slightly the better of me,<br \/>\n I&#8217;d taken<br \/>\n the seven hour overnight flight from Singapore, had no sleep and was<br \/>\n far from best form but some childish notion inside me propelled me to<br \/>\n an alternate universe where I was watching the Customs woman writhing<br \/>\n on the ground having eaten a poisoned biscuit.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n The female customs official then got slightly<br \/>\n hysterical because I have been to Indonesia not once but twice (and now<br \/>\n three times) and she would not listen to my answers. Diving,<br \/>\n I kept<br \/>\n saying, for diving. She kept telling me that I had been to<br \/>\n Bali in<br \/>\n December 2004, and I kept saying no, it was 2 years ago in December<br \/>\n i. e. 2003, it was like a pantomime act &#8211; oh yes you have, oh<br \/>\n no, I<br \/>\n haven&#8217;t. I started to wonder &#8211; are you supposed to argue with<br \/>\n Customs<br \/>\n officials? What happens if they think you are being argumentative, what<br \/>\n powers do they have next, even though I am only telling the truth<br \/>\n because this woman is mistaken. Then she saw the recent US<br \/>\n stamp and<br \/>\n then the Myanmar stamp and this sent her into a whole line about why,<br \/>\n why, why, why without bothering to listen to my responses which were<br \/>\n polite and succinct.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n I have no idea whether I was being accused of being an<br \/>\n international terrorist or a drug dealer or what, but the woman was<br \/>\n fast gathering speed in her distrust of me and there seemed to be some<br \/>\n unspoken accusation hanging in the air. I asked the woman,<br \/>\n why did you<br \/>\n stop me, what is it that you suspect me of? She told me in very snotty<br \/>\n and superior tones that she was not at liberty to tell me. So<br \/>\n not a good<br \/>\n <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px solid;width: 560px;height: 168px;float: right\" src=\"\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/pictures\/2006\/2006-01-enews-image015.jpg\" alt=\"View of Darling Harbour\" class=\"pic\" hspace=\"35\" vspace=\"5\" \/><br \/>\n start!<br \/>\n And what was so ironic about this whole episode &#8211; I was after another<br \/>\n 30 minutes dismissed &#8211; when I got out of the airport and later picked<br \/>\n up a newspaper, I discovered that the whole of Australia was up in arms<br \/>\n about the Queensland woman who got caught smuggling 4 &amp;frac12; kgs<br \/>\n of cannabis in her boogie board in Bali, and the suspicion that they<br \/>\n had been put there by a Brisbane airport based gang of airport based<br \/>\n dug dealer baggage handlers.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n It was winter in Oz back then, in June 2005 when I made<br \/>\n this trip, so it was like an early autumn day in the UK, cold and<br \/>\n windy, briskly chilly but sunny at the same time, if that makes<br \/>\n sense.<br \/>\n I spent only a week in Australia and visited the Blue Mountains for a<br \/>\n few days and spent the rest of my week in Sydney; did the usual<br \/>\n touristy kind of things, Darling Harbour, Opera House, the Botanical<br \/>\n gardens. I especially liked Darling Harbour which is really<br \/>\n lovely to<br \/>\n wander around. There are some very nice sculptures in a<br \/>\n tranquil area<br \/>\n bordered by the sea on one side and tall high rise buildings on the<br \/>\n other. It felt a little bit like being in<br \/>\n Manhattan. There&#8217;s one lovely<br \/>\n huge spiral pond type of thing, a bit like an Escher drawing that<br \/>\n consists of lots of downward spirals like a snail shell each carrying<br \/>\n dribbles of water. That had me fascinated.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\" \" class=\"pic\" src=\"\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/pictures\/2006\/2006-01-enews-image016.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"263\" hspace=\"12\" width=\"395\" \/><br \/>\n I<br \/>\n have been to Sydney three times before and have never been carried away<br \/>\n by it, and I hope that my airport experience did not colour my view,<br \/>\n but I came to the conclusion that the area from Liverpool st upwards to<br \/>\n circular quay &#8211; about half a km &#8211; is architecturally interesting, with<br \/>\n a mix of early 20th century buildings and modern high rise, and it too<br \/>\n has character. But there are some pretty hideous modern<br \/>\n buildings when<br \/>\n they could be so amazing &#8211; there are so many cities, London included,<br \/>\n where modern architecture, in my opinion anyway is done so<br \/>\n well. I<br \/>\n found the rest of metropolitan Sydney to be pretty dull (sorry<br \/>\n Australian readers!) and samey and decidedly lacking character, though<br \/>\n found a nice suburb, Surrey Hills, just to the right of central Station<br \/>\n which has lots of nice cafes and restaurants and those colonial types<br \/>\n of narrow terraced houses with pretty wrought iron balconies.<br \/>\n I also<br \/>\n kept being ripped off with change, this happened every single day when<br \/>\n I would be short changed in shops. I was also over charged by<br \/>\n the hotel<br \/>\n I stayed in in the Blue Mountains, which again didn&#8217;t feel too good; I<br \/>\n guess this thing happens everywhere where you are noticeably from out<br \/>\n of town, but this is the first time in any country this has happened to<br \/>\n me.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n What could I have done differently? I really don&#8217;t<br \/>\n know, maybe it is luck of the draw, but it was not a good experience<br \/>\n and the attitude of the Customs official was really uncalled for and<br \/>\n quite unnecessary. Have you had any bad airport experiences?<br \/>\n Write in<br \/>\n and tell the Beetle!\n <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My arrival into Sydney at 5. 30am on a June Sunday morning did not bode well as a sign of enjoying my week long stay in Australia. 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