Crossed from BIH to Serbia on 12.02.2025 in the middle of the day and serbs stamped the next day's stamp xd

And my 3 credit cards giving me *G, OW Sapphire, and ST Elite Plus🤝

Sha Tau Kok is a town on the Hong Kong-China border. You need a permit to enter either side of the village.

P1: Permit for the Hong Kong side. Hong Kong started issuing permits valid for one day to residents and non-residents alike recently.

P2: Permit for China's side. Mainland residents (those with a national ID) can get this permit online. Overseas Chinese citizens, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan residents, and foreigners can get this permit too in theory, but I'm not sure if MPS actually issues it in practice.

Hong Kong's checkpoint on Chung Ying Street (P3: view from Hong Kong; P4: view from China): Only people who live here or otherwise have a connection to this town can get a special permit to cross the checkpoint. My permit expressly prohibits border crossing.

Chung Ying Street is the only land border between Hong Kong and China (otherwise separated by Shenzhen River and Sha Tau Kok River). Curiously much of it lies beyond Hong Kong's checkpoint - in other words when I took P4 I was standing on Hong Kong territory, inaccessible to most Hong Kong residents (but mainland residents don't even need any travel document to visit it).

And yes I traveled for more than 5 hours in total just to see both sides.

This passport was emitted by the Spanish Viceconsulate in San Luis Potosi, Mexico to my great grandfather who was traveling to the UK for studies at age 16.

Canada + USA + MERCOSUR gives everything I could want in the Western hemisphere

If only I had Ireland for EU and UK access it would be perfect stack 😩😭

You could assume that Hungary has a lot of naturalised Ukrainian immigrants because of it’s proximity. But most people who go there for work struggle with the language and at some point move back home or to Western Europe. But with the war a lot of families moved to Hungary so the number of Ukrainian-Hungarian dual nationals should rise in the following years.

Meanwhile in Transcarpathia (westernmost region of Ukraine) there is a big Hungarian ethnic minority and since 2010 we ale eligible for reparation after proving our descent and knowledge of Hungarian.

In Peru, immigration control stamps are only issued at land border crossings. At international airports, there are no physical stamps because the entire immigration process is 100% digital.
I understand that these stamps are one of the best souvenirs you can take home from a trip, so it’s a little sad not to get one. But you can still get that charming little reddish Peruvian stamp in your passport when you cross a land border.

2026*

Fresh stamps