On 5/27/06, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@debian.org> wrote:
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 12:33:54PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Within the Schengen area (European Union plus Norway, Vatican, > and... any others?), you travel between countries without even waving > your passport at anybody. That's not fully true. You have to show your passport to the *first* country of that area you get into, from there on, you don't (since there is no customs borders between countries there).
Also, not all of the EU is member of the Schengen treaty. Switzerland recently joined even though they are not member of the EU (though they havn't implemented it yet, there are a number of things Switzerland has to do first). The obvious example is the UK, which insists on checking your passport if you come from the mainland. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/