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New Schengen countries from today .....

Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 8:23 am
by mpprh
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 8:58 am
by e-richard
Still noticable white blob left of centre in that picture :cry:

Anyway, for those of you who fly into UK frequently, have you checked out the way to avoid immigration queues for UK Citizens ?.

I tried it earlier this month at LGW, and while there was a long line waiting to get thru UK passport control, I went to a separate line - with no-one in front of me, stared into a mirror and was let through in about 20-30 seconds.

Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 10:53 am
by Margaret
We had local celebrations here at the border last night at midnight - very strange to see the 2 border guards, 1 from each side, dismantle the last border sign. In an hour's time, we have 5 assorted ministers from the 2 countries arriving for official celebrations, with TV cameras and all.

Quite exciting and very moving. A long way from November 1989 but still important as the final step to a united Europe, in the middle at least!

Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 5:43 am
by Margaret
For anyone interested, I have posted a description of events here on our blog:

http://haussterr.wordpress.com/

If anyone can tell me how to upload photos, I will do that too!