Paranoid Africans

Amsterdam, 07 Sept. 2012.

I have a strong suspicion this will be a very empty bus seeing all these African would be passengers making a hasty half paranoid retreat, dragging heaps of luggage behind them with one dark skinned hand while the other is holding their cell phone, talking excitedly no doubt about these plain clothes officials giving everybody the Can I See Your ID, What Is In Your Bag treatment...

 

I remember the Eurolines bus Amstel Station stop from twenty odd years ago transporting loads of alternatives across all of Europe, rastahaired chicks and second hand clothed boyfriends hastily skinning up their last coffee shop bought treasures before it would turn into illegal substances upon crossing the international borders...

Nowadays with airline companies slashing it out among each other with bargain tickets the Euroline company has become a haven for the illegal immigrants, open borders and the Schengen Accord an easy way to visit relatives and friends down south...

What should have been a half bus at least turns into a comfortable four passengers trip to Belique...