Am in Portsmouth en route to Cornwall. Stopped in at my mum's and she gave me the following extract from the British papers. Another confirmation of the weirdness of Amsterdam...
Macabre Find in a Suitcase
Up to 20,000 baboon noses were found in a suitcase at Amsterdam's Schipol Airport.
They are believed to have been abandoned by a traveller from Nigeria who was en route to America and feared being caught with the grisly cargo.
The noses were probably intended to be eaten or used as traditional medicines, said Dutch customs officials.
Yes, I know this sounds like something out of Monty Python, but I promise it has been faithfully reproduced. Poor baboons...
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