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  There is a very interesting editors column in the Dover Express this week from..well presumably Simon Finlay..although Simon's profile seems a lot lower than it once was..is he still there??..but anyway I digress. It hits the age old problem that we have spoken about on here in the past many times..ie the link or lack of link between the Cruise Ships docking and passenger numbers drifting into the town itself. The newspaper elsewhere reports that prospective cruise calls are up and thats great, but it benefits the rest of us in the community not a jot. No passengers, or few, come into the town and spend any money at all. You may see a hapless and forlorn few gathered with hands in pockets around the less than spectacular fountain, gazing at the distant castle...but apart from that?...
  
  Its a sad state of affairs alright. One can gaze out on these great ships and look at the wealth thereon and feel like the urchin outside the restaurant with his nose presssed against the window pane, as fat lot of good it does us, no tasty morsels ever come this direction.
  
  On the contrary, each ship is met by a vast line of colourful coaches ready willing and aalllll toooo able to whisk the affluence off elsewhere, bypassing Dover at great haste.
  
  But whats to be done...?? aaah, if only we knew.

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