How do I travel from Vapi to Daman?
When you reach Vapi train station at any time in day or night , the best option is to take a shared taxi @ Rs.30 per person as many have answered. Further to add is , you can say front seat full , and pay Rs.60 and have more comfortable journey and also keep small bag with you. You can also say back seat full and pay Rs. 120 and this suits if two or three of you are taking this journey. And similarly , Rs. 180 for full taxi , if you wish to travel alone. I would recommend taking a shared taxi than taking independent auto or taxi , specially at late night time. Shared taxi is safer even at night for females. Shared taxi drivers have unwritten culture and understanding to take care of passengers and safety. You can take full front seat of full back seat of shared taxi instead. Once you reach taxi stand , you can walk if distance is less or take an auto normally available at taxi stand.If you reach Vapi by bus , it is suggested to go to train station and take a shared taxi. It is less than 800 mtrs. There are some buses to Daman , but frequency is very low and certain in terms of timing , can take this if you just happen to get when you reach Vapi.If you reach Vapi , when mumbai - Gujrat bus drops you on highway most likely at Fortune Galaxy square, take an auto to railway station west side ( platform 1 side ) and take shared taxi.
I visited the UK recently and my visa was not stamped on my way out of Heathrow airport. How do the immigration authorities know I have left the UK?
One point I recently discovered...I've a UK passport, was born in the UK, but I live abroad and generally only travel back to the UK once a year via the Euro tunnel...My passport is never stamped during this journey and is generally only checked briefly...When traveling from France to the UK on Eurostar, you go through both French and UK Passport control in the railway station in France (Paris or Lille), French passport control consists in a bored policeman checking that I look something like the picture...British passport control is slightly different - they now pass your passport through what looks like a small image scanner...For the last five or six years this has inevitably led to odd conversations with the UK customs officials (questions like, "Could you write down your address in the UK for me"... "Where are you staying", etc...)... accompanied by a great deal of typing into the computer and puzzled looks... To be honest this has freaked me out for the last five years... Wondering why the hell I'm getting special attention.This summer I think that I actually got to the bottom of the matter... Got to UK passport control... Handed my passport over... She scanned my passport and...The inevitable happened... a pause, confused look, much typing, scratching of head... Then finally the girl on the passport desk asked me a question "How long have you been abroad?" I answer "I live abroad - I'm just coming back to visit... Haven't been back to the UK for over a year now".The response "Ah! That explains it!" A smile from the girl and she hands back my passport.My reckoning (seen exclusively from the outside) is that the scanner device records more than just an image... it actually logs your passport details... And UK customs keep a record of when people leave the UK. When you travel back their system matches up your departure date with your return date... But for some reason (probably lack of space) their 'live' computer system doesn't have access to departure dates for someone who 'left' the country a year ago... So basically it's flagging my passport as a Brit, who's never actually left the country, trying to enter the UK. (So. Is the passport a forgery? Am I who I say I am? How did I get out of the country without going through passport control?).Once they realise the situation it's all smiles, but it's freaked me out (and confused passport control staff) for the last half a dozen visits.