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Entry Requirements for Schengen Countries, Or How Not To Ruin a Trip To Europe

Entry Requirements for Schengen Countries, Or How Not To Ruin a Trip To Europe

Planning a trip to Europe? Quick, check the expiration date on your passport! If it expires in 6 months or less from your arrival date, you’d better apply for a passport renewal now.

I know what you’re probably thinking: Why six months? I’ll be long gone by then! I don’t want to pay to renew my passport when there’s still half a year left before it expires!

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Travel Insurance: Yes or No?

People have a lot of questions about travel insurance. What is it? What does it cover? Is it worth the price? Where do I get it? So here are some simple answers to help you make a more informed decision.

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Serendipity and a Lost Passport

Would you buy someone else’s long-expired passport? What if the passport showed that, many years ago, the person lived in the same place where you live now?

For Nuno Fonseca, a Portuguese medical student studying in Paris, the pull of the mystery represented by a 60-year-old passport he found at a flea market was too strong to resist.

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Man Replaces Lost Passport with iPad (Maybe)

It was the travel story of the week:  a 33-year-old Canadian man named  Martin Reisch left on a road trip for the US without his passport, but managed to convince Customs to let him across the border by showing them a scanned copy of the document on his iPad.

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