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« on: September 25, 2020, 07:46:08 PM »
Sadly in the Netherlands and Belgium, I have been stopped more times than I can remember in the last few years. On the Dutch side it has been particularly bad between Terneuzen and Walsoorden, when I have asked it has always been because of 'Drugs' and my interest in ships and the river. More recently it has felt it was because I am in a British car, as they never seem to take an interest in the locals?
In Antwerp a few years ago at the Boudewijnsluis I was stopped by a port official not for taking photos but for concerns I was fishing, something that is now banned along the Belgium part of the river after it was implied Eastern Europeans had cleared the river of Fish stocks.
In the 90's I was occasionally stopped in Antwerp and my passport checked by the Police, but never told
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