When returning from holiday, one starts to think of holidays

[fivemack]

By 'south of the Rio Grande', I mean 'into Mexico' rather than 'anywhere south of 31N' - I thought this was standard usage, but various of my friends in Cambridge interpreted it the other way.

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[fivemack.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how to go about getting a Europe stamp ... ask nicely at the Swiss border? I've got Hungary and Romania in the current passport, but they're of course EU now.

(actually I also have Ukraine and Serbia, which won't be EU for a while, but they're not places you tend to transit)

I might well fill this passport before it expires in Feb2012: not that many blank pages left and I'll be wanting at least a Chinese full-page visa.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

I got Vienna airport in my last passport by smiling sweetly and saying "Please may I have a stamp?" when I went through passport control.

This resulted in a BIG sigh and rummaging around in his bag for the stamps (it was an EU queue so I guess I was the first that day and that it was generally uncommon but common enough for them to have stamps). But no actual "Why do you want that stamp?" type of questions.

I didn't get a stamp for Poland, nor Norway, nor Switzerland. Given that I crossed the Swiss-French border twice a day for a few months, that would have very quickly filled up my passport if I had :-).