Cyclizine Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 2 hours ago, DiegoDiego said: Nice Douglas Ross impression there. I'm sure folk in the The United Republic of Tanzania say the same about parts of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. If we were stopping people at Berwick or Gretna and demanding to see their passports, you might have a point. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 If we were stopping people at Berwick or Gretna and demanding to see their passports, you might have a point.Yes, because I was clearly making a 1:1 analogy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekhibee88 Posted April 15, 2021 Author Share Posted April 15, 2021 Had a look at my old passport to see what stamps I got. Serbia Australia for both visits UAE Albania , on leaving by ferry, no entry stamp/ Montenegro Croatia Macedonia Russia Sticker for Hong Kong Thailand China Bosnia only on leaving. Turkey sticker. New Passport only has Japan. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul-r-cfc Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 On my current one I've got:USA x 2Canada SerbiaBosnia Montenegro Croatia (visited about two weeks before they joined the EU)Poland (dunno why the woman gave me it)ThailandCambodia Vietnam LaosMexico BelizeGuatemala El Salvador Costa Rica Nicaragua Honduras didn't give us one because we didn't officially enter the country. Some G adventures jiggery pokery.Also got full page visas from Cambodia and Laos.Irish passport hasn't even been used yet and can't see it getting anywhere near as much ink. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Ferguson's Hat Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 There's a train station in the north of South Korea that, I think, has been built in the hope that one day it will service lines going north in a unified Korea. It's pretty much just a tourist spot for now, but it's a pretty cool place to visit nonetheless and is on the way to the DMZ. Anyway, there are free stamps there, designed to look like passport stamps, that you can put on postcards etc to either keep as a souvenir or send to loved ones from the adjacent post office. You are expressly told that you cannot stamp your passport as it carries the very real risk of invalidating the entire document if noticed by zealous border officials at immigration ports anywhere on the planet. As you can imagine, in the queue to use the stamp there were swathes of people, American passports in hand, waiting to defile their travel documentation I sincerely hope they're still stuck there to this day. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekhibee88 Posted May 14, 2021 Author Share Posted May 14, 2021 On 12/05/2021 at 15:17, Barry Ferguson's Hat said: There's a train station in the north of South Korea that, I think, has been built in the hope that one day it will service lines going north in a unified Korea. It's pretty much just a tourist spot for now, but it's a pretty cool place to visit nonetheless and is on the way to the DMZ. Anyway, there are free stamps there, designed to look like passport stamps, that you can put on postcards etc to either keep as a souvenir or send to loved ones from the adjacent post office. You are expressly told that you cannot stamp your passport as it carries the very real risk of invalidating the entire document if noticed by zealous border officials at immigration ports anywhere on the planet. As you can imagine, in the queue to use the stamp there were swathes of people, American passports in hand, waiting to defile their travel documentation I sincerely hope they're still stuck there to this day. I done that with one of my older passports, think it was from some place in Prague. Never had any problems with my passport after but heads gone for putting that stamp in. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 On 12/05/2021 at 22:17, Barry Ferguson's Hat said: There's a train station in the north of South Korea that, I think, has been built in the hope that one day it will service lines going north in a unified Korea. It's pretty much just a tourist spot for now, but it's a pretty cool place to visit nonetheless and is on the way to the DMZ. Anyway, there are free stamps there, designed to look like passport stamps, that you can put on postcards etc to either keep as a souvenir or send to loved ones from the adjacent post office. You are expressly told that you cannot stamp your passport as it carries the very real risk of invalidating the entire document if noticed by zealous border officials at immigration ports anywhere on the planet. As you can imagine, in the queue to use the stamp there were swathes of people, American passports in hand, waiting to defile their travel documentation I sincerely hope they're still stuck there to this day. I've not been to either N or S Korea bit I have been to the USA so I can understand why they were so keen to be detained. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effeffsee_the2nd Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 Think alot of places have started doing away with them now that passports are all machine readable and data can be stored on a computer 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 On 24/05/2021 at 13:11, effeffsee_the2nd said: Think alot of places have started doing away with them now that passports are all machine readable and data can be stored on a computer Girl from STV News got hers stamped when entering Faro in Portugal. Was on the 6pm news this evening. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genuine Hibs Fan Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 Got my new proper British blue passport the other day and looking forward to the lads at various European airports giving me some stamps 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekhibee88 Posted June 1, 2021 Author Share Posted June 1, 2021 On 24/05/2021 at 13:11, effeffsee_the2nd said: Think alot of places have started doing away with them now that passports are all machine readable and data can be stored on a computer Yeah, even the Non Eu countries in Europe don't always stamp! I remember Serbia certainly did. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 Yeah, even the Non Eu countries in Europe don't always stamp! I remember Serbia certainly did.Some of them don't even have border posts. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul-r-cfc Posted June 2, 2021 Share Posted June 2, 2021 Yeah, even the Non Eu countries in Europe don't always stamp! I remember Serbia certainly did.I got woken up on a train at about 2AM to get a Serbian stamp. Bosnia and Montenegro stamped on the same trip as well. Was very excited by that at the time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 Border guy made a big show of stamping my passport at Lisbon Airport this evening but I don't think he had any ink, no sign of it. Locals were annoyed because our queue was faster than theirs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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