April 7th - It's a long way to Dover
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
On what's shaping up to be the busiest Good Friday since 2019, I travelled by coach to Dover to see whether the issues reported during the week were slowing coach passengers down as passport checks slow everyone. But what I've actually found is people being prioritised today, with my coach being whisked through Dover past lines of cars and lorries.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Amico, the barco, la comita. |
| 0:06.0 | What is this? |
| 0:08.0 | What is this? |
| 0:10.0 | One free meal. |
| 0:12.0 | One, two, one, two, three, four, five. |
| 0:16.0 | Three, five. |
| 0:19.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:20.0 | Yes. You can... |
| 0:21.6 | The barco, the comeda, barato. |
| 0:24.6 | No, pachar, no. Okay, thank you. |
| 0:26.6 | Thank you very much, Hussain. |
| 0:28.6 | No problem. I need to help the passengers, huh? |
| 0:31.6 | Well, well, well, there is my new best friend. |
| 0:36.6 | Good afternoon, everybody from Dover, and that is Hussein who is the driver of the Flix Bus, service number 805. |
| 0:47.3 | We left London a couple of minutes late, Victoria Coach Station. The reason was somebody suddenly worked out a couple of |
| 0:56.8 | minutes beforehand that they were actually on the bus which is going to Dover, to Calais, to |
| 1:03.5 | Leal, to Brussels, to Cologne, rather than the one which they wanted. Anyway, we set off, we travelled |
| 1:10.6 | without incident all the way to Dover, |
| 1:12.6 | whereupon we were diverted to an interesting part of the town down through some, oh hang on, I think |
| 1:22.2 | there's some hoovering going to happen here. Yes, we have Hussein Huve. Just seeing what this is. |
| 1:27.4 | Oh right, we've got a little bit of |
| 1:28.9 | sickness. Not more. Not more. Please. There we are. And it's all slightly chaotic. But Hussein is doing |
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