We're never quite sure what items we're not supposed to bring over the border from North Cyprus when returning to the South. Forget about it until we're asked by the uniform if we've bought anything, which seems a poor time to ask what shouldn't we have. Have always assumed tobacco was top of the verboten list but nobody we know buys it and booze doesn't seem any cheaper in the North. Though medicine certainly is. But now we know not to waste our time gathering snails:
"Ten kilos of snails were found in the car of a Turkish Cypriot when he tried to transport them from the occupied areas to the south, customs said. On Wednesday morning, police in Pyla stopped a vehicle which was driven by a Turkish Cypriot man from Vatili and discovered the snails. The driver was taken to the customs department where he was fined €100. The snails were seized in order to be destroyed."
Destroyed, or escargots for the customs blokes?
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