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Article: Sting in the tail of a hair raising journey.(News)
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- The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- July 15, 1998
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Plovdiv, Bulgaria
A T THE border we were met by a cus- toms official with eyebrows like privet hedges. If they had been fences in the Grand National, Red Rum would justifiably refuse them.
Above his upper lip, meanwhile, was a moustache of shape and density which would not have looked out of place on the head of a fully grown water buffalo.
We were definitely in Bulgaria, where the cultivation of facial hair is a national pastime.
And, it seems, motor-cycle maintenance: in contrast to the Turkish mechanics who ...