I was delayed by about 15 mins recently at Prague airport whilst the border official went through my passport checking every Schengen country entry/exit stamp to see if I had breached the 90 days in 180 days rule. I hadn't of course but if they were doing it to everybody then it would have taken ages to clear the massive queue that had formed behind me.
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Similar careful checking at Brno (on exit, surprisingly) about a month ago - not helped by the fact that an Italian exit stamp from last year was an a completely different page from its corresponding entry stamp (and all but the date was too faint to read) and that my most recent entry into Schengen had been via Romania, not the Czech Rep). As far as the first was concerned - the mention of Italy produced a roll of the eyes and an immediate stamp of the passport. Their reputation seems to go before them.
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Seems to be a great advantage of travelling into Europe by train or ferry - never had any issues in recent years. Flying back from Krakow was asked how I arrived in Poland and when told by train they found my French entry stamp from St Pancras.
UK police do ID checks on foot arrivals at Liverpool off the Belfast ferry.
UK police do ID checks on foot arrivals at Liverpool off the Belfast ferry.
Same with my Passport, my Italian stamp is has been plonked on a ramdom page diagonally.
Arrived at WRO in Poland and the guy checking my passport went through it checking all my stamps. Another passenger from my flight was refused entry/or turned back to make arrangements as he didn't have Schengen visa, not sure where he was from.
Entirely normal for Poland. Wroclaw, Gdańsk, Modlin and Bydgoszcz have all carefully studied my entry stamps before - though never with any unpleasantness and sometimes a request to guide them through any badly placed ones. Modlin even joked I was clearly a fan of Poland as I rocked up there about three days after previously exiting through Gdańsk.
Kraków and Warsaw Chopin were entirely unbothered - suspect due to the higher footfall of Brits, especially in the case of the former.
Yes, I left through KRK and they weren't as half interested!
My passport has two stamps from MXP and BCN on the same day when I flew Singapore Airlines which may arouse suspicion as I flew between two Schengen countries.
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I went through GOT (Gothenburg Landvetter) today with a number of people in the national team. The officer asked everyone for the return ticket, and when checking my passport, phoned the supervisor because she had never seen my kind of passport before.
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Glad to report no problems getting into Copenhagen and also unlike it,s Scandinavian neighbours Norway and Sweden it has smoking areas post security/passport control.
Basel Mulhouse today - no questions when the entry stamp was given but I was 35 mins in a massive queue to get to a passport booth while of course EU Passport Holders (which we used to be of course 
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What sort of passport were you travelling on?
Basel Mulhouse today - no questions when the entry stamp was given but I was 35 mins in a massive queue to get to a passport booth while of course EU Passport Holders (which we used to be of course
When I was there the e-gates were off and all the counters were set to All Passports... no queue to speak of, everyone went through equally quickly, the officers asked the Brits one question "where are you going". I just said "Basel" and he nodded and stamped.
I suspect a BN(O)
BN(O)s look identical to regular British passports now. I think they previously did not have the words European Union on the front cover.
When we were in the EU, coming off flights from Hong Kong into Schengen, I noticed officers often made special scrutiny of my British passport to make sure it was not a BN(O) as BN(O)s did not have the rights of EU citizens, although I only realised this after I went through passport control with an officer-in-training.
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Flew into Basel a week ago, had no issues. Asked why I was travelling (Interrail) and where I was staying that night. Then got a stamp no problem.Basel Mulhouse today - no questions when the entry stamp was given but I was 35 mins in a massive queue to get to a passport booth while of course EU Passport Holders (which we used to be of course
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A friend from the Isle of Man actually had an interesting problem with this. She lived in the EU for quite a few years as a Manx(wo)man, and no-one had ever realised that she wasn't entitled to EU freedom of movement provisions despite her passport being endorsed with a warning that she wasn't. Then Brexit happened, she had to get a residence permit under the Withdrawal Agreement, and only then did it emerge that she wasn't entitled to it and that she shouldn't have been resident in the EU before that as an EU citizen.
The problem had emerged because her parents were naturalised British citizens living on the Isle of Man, so they had no connection to the UK. She had studied at university in the UK, but this wasn't enough to meet the requirements needed to remove the endorsement from her passport.
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No problem getting into Croatia via Zagreb Airport - straight through.
What a wonderful Country you can still smoke in Bars !!
What a wonderful Country you can still smoke in Bars !!
That's my next city break sorted then!
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