This made me think of a sea voyage I took with my parents in 1977 to
Nassau, Bahamas from Miami. We were all birdwatchers, and my father had
somehow tracked down a birder in Nassau. The gentleman gave my father,
as a gift, a bottle of Cuban rum -- Batista rum! As we came through
Customs in Miami, of course we had nothing to declare, since the rum was
pre-Castro and thus perfectly legal! The Customs agent, however, was
quite prepared to confiscate the rum and write up some official-looking
paperwork, and probably have us all detained for attempting the smuggled
contraband rum into the U.S. However, when my father pointed out the
*date* on the label -- I think it was 1952.
A very disappointed Customs agent! One wonders where that bottle would
have ended up, had it been contraband? In the evidence locker? or
perhaps in the agent's home liquor cabinet...? :)
Thurlow Weed
Lancaster, Ohio
Sue Duckles wrote:
We
saw a rum factory (but don't mention the French authorities and the
rum.....) Chris got his Cuban
Cigars, (we weren't allowed them when we went to Nassau in '02 because
we couldn't take them back to Miami).
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