In preparation for our Summer jobs, hosting Oberammergau Passion Play pilgrims here in Maria Alm, we were required to get security clearance to go through to baggage reclaim at Munich airport. In order to go through this sacred sliding door to the other side, we were obliged to travel to Munich to attend a three hour theory session and a one hour practical. We survived and have a shiny certificate to show for it, which is not valid until we provide a CRB check, an apostille, which appears to be official confirmation that the CRB is indeed a CRB, and an officially certified translation of all documents. This involves receiving a form from Thames Valley Police, completing and returning it to Thames Valley Police, receiving it back from Thames Valley Police, sending it to a company in London, who send it to the Foreign Office to be legalised, who then receive it back, who then send it to be officially translated, who then receive it back, who then send it to a solicitor to officially certify the translation, who then receive it back, who then send all documents to us which we then send to Munich. Two months and two hundred pounds later we may have been able to go through that door, but instead we have given up and our guests will have to manage baggage reclaim without us.
