http://allaboutlatvia.com/article/581/schengen/ Serpentine Percipience Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:22:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://allaboutlatvia.com/article/581/schengen/comment-page-1/#comment-1114 Pierre Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:12:19 +0000 http://allaboutlatvia.com/?p=581#comment-1114 <p>I understand that Ode to Joy is the EU anthem. Prieka and Santé to a united Europe!</p> I understand that Ode to Joy is the EU anthem. Prieka and Santé to a united Europe!

]]> http://allaboutlatvia.com/article/581/schengen/comment-page-1/#comment-1113 Martin-Éric Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:59:17 +0000 http://allaboutlatvia.com/?p=581#comment-1113 <p>I was the last foreigner to get my passport stamped by border guards on both sides: I went to Latvia around 23:30, took a beer at the casino a few hundred meters from the border on Semin?ra, then came back just before midnight. The Estonian border guards got emotional as they were handing me my passport back, right when the first of 12 bells was ringing before the two mayors’ speeches.</p> I was the last foreigner to get my passport stamped by border guards on both sides: I went to Latvia around 23:30, took a beer at the casino a few hundred meters from the border on Semin?ra, then came back just before midnight. The Estonian border guards got emotional as they were handing me my passport back, right when the first of 12 bells was ringing before the two mayors’ speeches.

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