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[crazycanuck]

Nanci, I love your website!! Way cool.

All i know is Lara bars must be ok for Australian quarantine and Inspections service because they weren't removed.

I think perhaps i should tell people on the board if they're sending food items to anyone in Aust/NZ- to put a full detailed description of the bar contents in the box provided on the customs declaration. I believe Quarantine will open most food packages anyways?

If the package were a threat I would have received a nice letter stating the items have been confiscated & a warning?
I might just email quarantine and ask the nice folks for more info...

One more thing-As margo said, NZ customs is ruthless & if you ever are unsure about the item you want to send..email the dept...

Let's just say that nz customs has been known to radiate porches because of unkown bugs etc....Not a dept you want to be on the bad side of...

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[Nanci]

My website is _so_ out-dated, though...And there isn't enough room for anything!!

So, if I sent a Cane Toad to NZ, I'd probably be in trouble?

[crazycanuck]

Ummm if you sent a cane toad to NZ ...I can imagine the panic!!!

The person you sent it to would probably receive a nice message from MAF (NZ ministry of agriculture & fisheries...ruthless folks!!!!)...perhaps a $60k fine or jail term-if they knowingly imported the thing...Let's just say i don;t even want to go down that garden path...

I don't have a clue about making a website..what do you have to do to change it?

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[DirtDiva]

Just a tad.

Confectionary and other processed, pre-packaged stuff tends to be alright, but raw foods are a big no-no. If you fly into NZ and forget you have an apple or whatever in your backpack it's an instant fine of the order of NZ$200 for a first time offender (so to speak). They're not the least bit interested that it was just an innocent mistake. (They do at least provide special bins to toss that kind of stuff in before you get to customs.)

[crazycanuck]

Dirtdiva,

Are you back in the UK or in NZ visiting? How is/was your trip? I missed you dear...so nice to see you again.

MAF is pretty ******** serious about the fine...some famous model was fined the $200 and couldn't get out of it...haha freak!

This reminds me of the show on tv here "Border Security"...interesting what folks try to do at customs....



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[DirtDiva]

Dirtdiva,

Are you back in the UK or in NZ visiting? How is/was your trip? I missed you dear...so nice to see you again.

MAF is pretty ******** serious about the fine...some famous model was fined the $200 and couldn't get out of it...haha freak!

This reminds me of the show on tv here "Border Security"...interesting what folks try to do at customs....



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Aw, so touching to be missed. :blush:

I'm still in NZ. I booked to come here for three weeks, but I've stayed on because my Dad isn't doing too well and it seemed pretty stupid to go back to the UK just now when I could be spending time with him. Boy, do I miss my bike though! I've retrieved the old bike I had here to have something to get about on, but it's not fun to ride. Slowest bike ever - it's like it doesn't want to go fast. And flat pedals suck!!! I just can't get used to them again! (I will concede that there are much grippier, better ones out there than the ones on this bike, a sub-NZ$500 entry-level hardtail.)

Anyway, I need to go and be vaguely productive before I sit down and catch up on 300-odd TD posts... You just can't go away for the weekend if you want to keep up with the drift!

[Nanci]

Yup, spend time with your dad while you have the chance.

It isn't so fun staying acclimated to hot temps when it is 90F and 55% humidity at 7PM, and I am outside eating dinner, reading 23 Days In July, having just finished the alpe l'huez time trial of 2004...

Ernesto should arrive about 8PM tomorrow, it looks like, but 100 miles out at the coast, passing by to the east of me. Heading out to sea earlier than previously thought. Keep hooking east, Ernesto!!

Way to go, Snap!

[snapdragen]

Beta - you are a sick, sick woman. That monkey video is........ But I watched the whole thing. And I'll probably pass it on to some friends, because I am a sick, sick woman too.