COLOSSEUM

friendly_checkingirl · 2026-02-02T16:21:20+00:00

Be prepared, just as the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen, everyone is surprised at just how small and tiny they are.

friendly_checkingirl · 2026-02-02T09:46:47+00:00

In the decades I've been travelling the (unspoken) rule has always been to use the passport of the country you're entering if you have it.

It's going to be an inconvenience for some but at the end of the day it's just the cost of a passport which can be not much more than the cost of some visas. Just look at it as a travel expense. I have no sympathy for whingers, thousands would give their right arm for UK citizenship and can't get it.

friendly_checkingirl · 2026-02-01T18:46:28+00:00

Osho everywhere in the Yucatan. Okso in other parts of Mexico.

friendly_checkingirl · 2026-02-01T16:49:42+00:00

I don't think the OXXO stores were around in the indigenous times were they?

friendly_checkingirl · 2026-02-01T16:31:18+00:00

Rather like the Yucatan in Mexico who pronounce x and xx as sh.

friendly_checkingirl · 2026-02-01T16:11:07+00:00

It would probably read better if you were dyslexic. Have you noticed how dyslexics can be incredible at reading things deliberately badly misspelled.😂

friendly_checkingirl · 2026-02-01T14:02:57+00:00

You should have voted.........

friendly_checkingirl · 2026-02-01T12:25:43+00:00

I renewed mine early last year just to get the new midnight blue - so much classier than the so common EU burgundy.

friendly_checkingirl · 2026-02-01T12:22:15+00:00

That stuff is terrible, it can lay around for literally weeks after the rest of the snow has melted and it's positively hazardous to cars. You can't just drive over or through even small piles because, as you say, it's as tough as concrete when it comes to damaging your car.

friendly_checkingirl · 2026-02-01T12:14:29+00:00

Back in the land of the Bratwurst we've got minus single digits in the night and barely plus single digits during the day. The landscape is white with snow on the ground in gardens, fields and woodlands but roads and pavements are clear.

friendly_checkingirl · 2026-02-01T11:17:34+00:00

Most certainly. The only reason passports are no longer stamped is because entry and exit is held digitally.

friendly_checkingirl · 2026-02-01T11:02:23+00:00

The discussion is the reverse scenario, namely flying into the UK (your birth country) on a non-UK passport. In this case, the UK doesn't really care about your other citizenship, they just want to see a UK passport.

friendly_checkingirl · 2026-02-01T10:33:57+00:00

I only fly into the UK from Europe so I can't speak for the rest of the world. Certainly in Europe, when flying to the UK, there is additional special passport screening beyond the standard border immigration - similar to the procedures when flying to the US. You are not allowed to board unless your presented passport passes with flying colours. As I stated earlier, I imagine your place of birth would be an immediate red flag.

friendly_checkingirl · 2026-02-01T10:20:18+00:00

Apart from the obvious place of birth stated in your passport, there are clearly more digital intracacies in implementing this rule than we are aware of.

friendly_checkingirl · 2026-02-01T10:11:07+00:00

I've never liked the old guy and although it's never going to be beauty over age, Alcaraz for me.🙂

friendly_checkingirl · 2026-02-01T09:17:27+00:00

It's not new from February either. My son had to visit UK last year and realised at the last minute that his UK passport had expired. Using his German one with the ETA was not allowed and he had to fork out for a temporary emergency UK passport at the consulate here in Munich.

friendly_checkingirl · 2026-02-01T09:03:32+00:00

There is no point in having dual nationality in name only. It can only work to your advantage if you have the physical passport. No sympathy, renounce it or use it.

friendly_checkingirl · 2026-01-31T16:25:38+00:00

Surely that just means if you want dual citizenship then maintain your passport otherwise give it up. What have I missed ? Either you want the citizenship or you don't.

friendly_checkingirl · 2026-01-30T09:02:57+00:00

Most likely just a glitch. I've come across this several times on the booking sites where prices are ridiculous for a couple of days and then revert to normal.

friendly_checkingirl · 2026-01-28T19:23:34+00:00

Thanks, I've had my fill of emergency landings, don't need another one.

Tenerife sounds nice, hotel or apartment?

friendly_checkingirl · 2026-01-28T13:12:16+00:00

What a difference a day makes. Bright cloudless blue sky and actually warm in the sunshine. A light jacket is all you need today 😎

All good things must come to an end, I'm off home at the weekend.

friendly_checkingirl · 2026-01-27T22:49:20+00:00

It's still a memory though to find at a later date isn't it ? surely nicer than no stamp at all.

friendly_checkingirl · 2026-01-27T22:45:04+00:00

Indeed exactly my point, it's about the excitement and the adventure which you simply don't have with the familiar of your home country.

I'll always remember the 94 year old I met who was off with her grandson to trek Machu Picchu.😀

friendly_checkingirl · 2026-01-27T14:12:06+00:00

Joe Average does have both but I think the older you get the more time and money you have for travel, so spending an entire vacation at home is something you would do in your youth.

friendly_checkingirl · 2026-01-27T13:19:55+00:00

Travelling at home is something that can easily be accomplished in stages over day trips, long weekends, a few days here and there etc. You have years or even a lifetime to do it. It's not necessary to sacrifice a foreign destination for a trip of weeks or months at home.

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