Kosice
Trip Start
Oct 02, 2007
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Trip End
Oct 16, 2007
As we sat at Bratislava airport at some ridiculous time in the morning, waiting to go through baggage control for our flight to Kosice, it suddenly dawned on me that in my hand luggage I had 6 bottles of contact lenses solution! My sister had asked me to bring over her 6 month supply of solution. Both my Mum and I had decided not to check in our bags and when I was packing, it didn't even cross my mind that I was packing a huge amount of liquid into my hand luggage. I had got through East Midlands airport with absolutely no problem, but Mum had got a Ram's skull in her hand luggage, so that provided quite a bit of distraction, so I must have slipped past without any notice. Just in case your wondering, the Ram's skull was another thing Sarah had asked us to bring over, she's doing Veterinary, it's normal...they like skulls and things like that! I started to get really nervous. It's fine when you're totally innocent to the fact that your taking liquids on board and I honestly would have been shocked if they had caught me at East Midlands. Shocked at how stupid I can be sometimes! Anyway, there was no way we could get out of it now and I didn't want to dump all of Sarah's solution, she would have killed me! So we thought we'd try and use the Ram's skull as a distraction again. As I went through baggage control I was asked if I had any cosmetics in my bag, contact lenses solution isn't a cosmetic, is it? Well, I don't think it is, so I didn't lie when I said no. But the Ram's skull distraction thing didn't work. As my bag went through they pulled it aside and a woman dived into my bag pulling out a plastic bag containing 1.5 litres of liquid. I felt sick to the stomach and sarah was going to kill me that it had been confiscated. But that's not what happened. The woman looked at one bottle and my Mum told her that it was contact lenses solution, in the hope that this would somehow be ok. And it was! Can you believe it, you hear of people having to throw away lipsticks and tiny things like that and they let me through with 1.5 litres of liquid and my Mum with a Ram's skull. We must look really really innocent, either that or this whole "no liquids" thing is just a complete farce.
