Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Willkommen nach Deutschland [Repeat]

Really, welcome to Germany again. We had many hours in Frankfurt before our flight to Munich, so we opted to walk around the older part of the city and visit the Deutsches Architekturmuseum. We had a bunch of carryon luggage we didn't want to deal with (laptop, change of clothing, ...) so we decided to leave them in the Lufthansa Senator lounge where we first went after we landed. It's upstairs in the B-pier--safe, free, convenient. Well, turns out it wasn't so convenient: when we came back to the airport we had to go through passport control again so we could leave the EU to retrieve our bags! So, as I write this, I guess we're technically back "in transit", and will soon enter Germany for the second time today.

Update: When we passed through passport control again, the immigration office came up with a decent - and presumably legal - solution. He took a pencil and made two small lines through the corner of the "departing EU" stamp. Perhaps this is the international equivalent of missing the coin bucket at the tollbooth, honking and driving forward blindly?

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