This story happened a long time ago when British people could go on a day trip to Europe without a Passport. It is about a Mr. and a Mrs. Rotham who went on a day trip to Boulogne.

When they had finished their shopping, the couple Cloze (1): JXUwMDJmJXUwMDEyJXUwMDBiJXUwMDFh for a stroll to see the sights of the town. Unfortunately, they didn’t Cloze (2): JXUwMDJkJXUwMDFiJXUwMDBhJXUwMDAxJXUwMDE3JXUwMDAxJXUwMDA3JXUwMDE1JXUwMDBmJXUw MDBh much French and couldn’t really Cloze (3): JXUwMDJhJXUwMDE3JXUwMDA0JXUwMDA1 the street signs, so they Cloze (4): JXUwMDNmJXUwMDA4JXUwMDFi completely lost. The French people they met were very kind and eventually they Cloze (5): JXUwMDNmJXUwMDA2JXUwMDE3JXUwMDEz them a lift to the railway station.

As last ferry had left, the Rothams Cloze (6): JXUwMDNjJXUwMDAxJXUwMDA2JXUwMDBhJXUwMDBkJXUwMDAxJXUwMDAx to go to Paris and go back to Leicester from there. Unfortunately, they Cloze (7): JXUwMDJhJXUwMDE3JXUwMDA0JXUwMDAyJXUwMDBiJXUwMDBkJXUwMDAx the wrong train and Cloze (8): JXUwMDNlJXUwMDA5JXUwMDFhJXUwMDFiJXUwMDBh themselves the next morning – in Luxembourg! The local police Cloze (9): JXUwMDI4JXUwMDA1JXUwMDAx the confused passengers on a train to Paris and they Cloze (10): JXUwMDJiJXUwMDFmJXUwMDA5JXUwMDE1JXUwMDA0 most of the way – all too soundly, in fact, they Cloze (11): JXUwMDM1JXUwMDA0JXUwMDFhJXUwMDAwJXUwMDE2JXUwMDAx their connection and Cloze (12): JXUwMDJmJXUwMDE4JXUwMDA0JXUwMDBlJXUwMDQ1JXUwMDU1JXUwMDA1 in Basel in Switzerland!

The obliging Swiss police Cloze (13): JXUwMDNmJXUwMDA2JXUwMDE3JXUwMDEz the couple directions back to Boulogne but somehow they Cloze (14): JXUwMDM1JXUwMDA0JXUwMDFhJXUwMDAwJXUwMDE2JXUwMDAx their way again and ended up over sixty kilometers to Vesoul in central France. A long-distance lorry driver gave the Cloze (15): JXUwMDNiJXUwMDBjJXUwMDAxJXUwMDA4JXUwMDEzJXUwMDA2JXUwMDE2JXUwMDAx couple a lift to Paris, but when they Cloze (16): JXUwMDM5JXUwMDEzJXUwMDAwJXUwMDFiJXUwMDFmJXUwMDEzJXUwMDAx to the Gare du Nord, their troubles were not over.

‘We Cloze (17): JXUwMDM1JXUwMDA0JXUwMDFhJXUwMDAxJXUwMDE3JXUwMDA0JXUwMDA1 the signs,’ Mrs Rotham Cloze (18): JXUwMDNkJXUwMDFkJXUwMDA4JXUwMDFjJXUwMDBkJXUwMDA4JXUwMDA3JXUwMDBiJXUwMDAx ‘and took the train to Bonn in Germany.’

From Germany the Rothams Cloze (19): JXUwMDM0JXUwMDA5JXUwMDAzJXUwMDEy quickly back to France. At the border, a sympathetic gendarme decided to Cloze (20): JXUwMDM1JXUwMDBjJXUwMDBhJXUwMDBlJXUwMDQ1JXUwMDUzJXUwMDA2JXUwMDA3JXUwMDE3 they got to Boulogne safely, so he Cloze (21): JXUwMDMwJXUwMDAxJXUwMDFkJXUwMDE3JXUwMDBiJXUwMDAwJXUwMDAxJXUwMDAyJXUwMDBlJXUw MDAx them all the way there.

As they didn’t have passports, it took twenty-four hours to Cloze (22): JXUwMDI4JXUwMDE1JXUwMDE3JXUwMDAxJXUwMDA2JXUwMDE0JXUwMDA1JXUwMDAx the Customs that their unlikely tale Cloze (23): JXUwMDNiJXUwMDBjJXUwMDFhJXUwMDE5JXUwMDA4 possibly be true. But at last they were allowed on a ferry that Cloze (24): JXUwMDJjJXUwMDFiJXUwMDAwJXUwMDA0 the Rothams back to England.