So I was looking at a travel site where when you make a booking, it asks for both your country of citizenship AND country of passport.
I have dual citizenship, and thus am eligible for both passports. So I could I suppose put South Africa for the citizenship and New Zealand for the passport fie...
yeah I suspect they may have had to give the passports back
especially as they had fake names
it just came to mind because of the specific detail of the Cabinet having to secretly authorize the issuance of real passports with fake names to non-citizens
Andrew Lazarus thinking of the American Samoa case at the same time is fun too
@Willeke design problem, do you know of any variants of the Chinese snake that allows for a two strand core? I have looked on the net and found nothing. Instead I am using the standard Portuguese sninnet, but I really want to take a project like I described.
@Willeke I didn't quite follow the discussion here, but: I've flown them once and I can't remember them checking, in general I would not be too worried about hand luggage weight, in case put on a jacket and stuff things into your pockets until you are fine
@MarkMayo Why? Refugees are people who want to lead a somewhat normal life, get a job, make a vacation, etc. You can live with the status for several years (although you would typically try to get another citizenship whenever you can).
Like a lady who had almost all relatives in Canada. She went for the Dutch nationality to be able to visit Canada without too many problems, not to come 'home' at the end of the trip.
Also, many refugees are stuck in camps and certainly not in a position to make a vacation, the point I was making is that it's not the only case, those who can certainly wish to go to a country where they can find a job and lead a better life
Well, yes, that's my point, it also prevents you from being forced to go “back” when your place of origin becomes somewhat more stable (Sweden has been talking about removing Iraqis for example), it simply gives you more options.
One family had been going through being denied refugee status but being allowed to apeal for 10 years, in which time two of their children were born and the older two were so intergrated in the country they were just Dutch kids.
In the end mother and kids got accepted, father denied (but given freedom to stay with his family for 'family reunification' reasons) and moved back when the kids were out of school.
We are no longer the 'welcoming' country we were known as in the past, and I do not know how long we have been.
Part of that is a high population number for the area but more important is the change from Christian and charity driven to Liberal and money driven gouvernments, I fear.
I just edited a sugested edit, they had used 'iraqi citizen' where the question read 'I am Iranian'. :(
I am trying to avoid construction traffic on Friday morning drive and found a route marked "Sprinter". What does sprinter mean / imply in the Netherlands? Is it a bus? Is it not for driving?
I would appreciate any guidance in selecting the route that offers the least traffic at Friday 9:30A...
@Relaxed, to avoid making the comments on the question into a chat. You have also not been in the same shop the OP did see the people buy their bottled water, so you can also not be sure whether it is carbonated or not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You have absolutely no reason to doubt it and yet you act as if my (simple, obvious) observation was the one that needs special evidence to back it up
That's not reasonable
Also, one guy just posted stats, a full 83% of the bottled water sold in Germany is sparkling, will you and @JonathanReez finally recognize you were just speaking out of ignorance?
Nonsense, you just wanted to talk about that while having nothing at all to say about Germany. The OP was literally asking why he saw so many people buying water.
I admit buying sparkling water with added taste, (no sweetner,) which I consider a different drink from plain water. While mineral non sparkling water is 'plain water' to me.
And you haven't noticed the Getränkemarkt or the sections full of crates of sparkling water? It's a striking difference with a Dutch supermarket, I don't know how you can overlook it.
@Relaxed judging by the selection in Czech supermarkets, I'd say 83% sounds close to the local tastes as well, as there are probably 4 types of sweetened/carbonated water to 1 type of regular water. However this only indirectly speaks about the reasons why people buy water, which would need a poll
Slightly different topic. In the past I helped someone with a very tight budget make a shopping list, she and partner had recently moved countries. On their list was bottled plain water, I asked if she had considered tap water.
I.e. they don't explain why so many buy water. But your answer is OK now, I removed my downvote long ago. It's just that the whole line of argumentation sounds disingeneous
And in TV programs about shopping/food choices in the UK they have tested and several people who always bought plain bottled water were surprised by how 'the same' tap water tastes
@Relaxed I'm not arguing one way or the other, I just happen to know Czech people with different reasons for not drinking from the tap, and I don't believe the reasons are that much different in Germany. I generally find stereotypes about a whole country or region to be untrue, once you start analyzing the stereotype from a scientific point of view
Your initial comments made it plain that you did not know/realize the obvious fact that Germans seldom drink plain non-sparkling water, then when someone tells you, you don't want to admit it and continue to talk about your experience elsewehere, and now that the fact becomes inescapable, you ask about polls and talk about the minority who does. Please...
Yes, I saw that but I am still not seeing any positive reasons to doubt it beyond the fact that it clashes with your intuition and experience in other countries
And that's even weaker than my (and many others') anecdotal observations
@Relaxed I don't see a reason to regard Germany to be different from Czech Republic in this particular aspect, perhaps not even that different from the USA
If Czech people buy water because they prefer sparkling drinks, then it's not different
If not, then it is
Simple, eh?
Meanwhile, if you don't know anything at all about Germany and merely speculate based on what you know about the Czech Republic, you have no business lecturing people about their standard of evidence.
It's not a stereotype, we have stats now! 80%! How blatantly dishonest can you be?
In the past (30 years ago) it was true that not all tap water in all of Europe was safe to drink for tourists and you would easily see where to buy bottled water, where the supermarkets had huge selections or volumes you would buy bottled. In almost all of those areas the tap water is up to good levels now, but the bottled water is more available, rather than less.
@Relaxed You have a very strong point, and I agree that sparkling is quite popular. But I still believe that 'tap water is bad' stereotype is a strong reason as well. Likewise 'mineral water is good' stereotype is popular
Incidentally, in the West of Ireland, they had trouble with water quality less than 10-15 years ago and you would find huge bottles of 5L still water in the shops.
That's what happens when the only concern is water quality, not crates of fizzy water.
As a matter of fact, I know many Germans who changed relatively recently, namely East Germans.
I know someone in Ireland who lives in a house with well water, which she happily drinks but would not drink the mains water, while it is proven that most problems with drinking water comes from wells. That is Ireland by the way.
Most areas have speciality foods, and in many countries those areas are not nation wide. I would not be surprised not to see those two products when I am in Germany next month. (On the north coast.)
I was expecting them to be something like local version of apple pie or some such, which would belong in the south of Germany, but drinks spread wider, faster.
Cuxhaven being a tourist town, one of the few (relatively spoken) coastal towns in Germany, I would be surprised if any popular German drink would be unavailable.
Just noticed the other stat provided by Marc Wittmann: Per-head consumption actually grew more than three-fold between 1980 and now, still almost 10% between 2010 and 2014. It's definitely not a case of old habits dying hard.
@Relaxed Is that about fizzy water or plain water? I see a lot more of fizzy water consuption, it is the plain water consumption that is old habits dying hard.
80% of which is currently fizzy, so a big part of the growth must be too (80% of 140L is more than the 40L people were drinking in the 1980).
But there is no data in his answer about the growth of still water consumption specifically
Either way, old habits don't explain the current (high) level of bottled water consumption, because it was much lower 30-40 years ago!
Also, I say 80% because it's so huge that details don't matter (in the heat of the argument, I would have claimed victory with 60%!!!) but it's actually almost 85% sparkling, 13% still and the rest flavoured or special in another way.
I'm from the Philippines, and 've been granted a (visitor) visa to UK. I will stay there for a month. My relative, who lives there, will sponsor my travel expenses and accommodation.
Are there any documents needed to provide at the UK Border, aside from passport (e.g travel insurance, medical i...
@Fiksdal, while I am not completely sure, I think that getting double nationality and different names for a baby, still to be born, is not a travel question.
I thought it fair to warn her that her question was not likely to be suitable. I do hate it when people just click a button that gives the 'ask a new question' text and then close vote when they do as 'wrong for the site'.
For example, a Japanese man wants to go from Sweden to Japan by road. He will donate a Swedish fire truck to Japan. He wants to go through Denmark, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iraq (Kurdish Region), Iran, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, North...
Maybe Swedish firetrucks are made of sterner stuff than our Dutch ones but I would fear for my back on anything but good new roads when using them any stretch of time. That is going by reputation, never riden in one.
I do not expect Japanese to be happy with a run down Swedish firetruck which does not fit with local requirements either.
I have followed a guy in his blog who used horses to cross from Mongolia to Hungary, he had to leave his first set of horses at one border to buy new ones at the other side as it was impossible to get the paperwork sorted, there was NO permission possible.
He had some more difficult crossings, no easy ones as far as I remember.
Mmmm, Only 24 votes today. I could spare a downvote for him.
I just checked out his other content, quite a few about crossing borders by car or motorbike. Confirms my 'wet dream' picture.
Hi please help I need to travel to the UK from South Africa to attend a function and meet my boyfriend's family the first week in October he will be my sponsor but believe I need entry clearance as I was removed previously about 6 or 7 years ago at Heathrow because I tried visiting a friend tha...
I am trying to avoid construction traffic on Friday morning drive and found a route marked "Sprinter". What does sprinter mean / imply in the Netherlands? Is it a bus? Is it not for driving?
I would appreciate any guidance in selecting the route that offers the least traffic at Friday 9:30A...
I'm from the Philippines, and 've been granted a (visitor) visa to UK. I will stay there for a month. My relative, who lives there, will sponsor my travel expenses and accommodation.
Are there any documents needed to provide at the UK Border, aside from passport (e.g travel insurance, medical i...
Hi please help I need to travel to the UK from South Africa to attend a function and meet my boyfriend's family the first week in October he will be my sponsor but believe I need entry clearance as I was removed previously about 6 or 7 years ago at Heathrow because I tried visiting a friend tha...
