Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.usage.english,alt.english.usage Subject: Travel Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 22:25:56 +0200 Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <9fjemlxbio.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10a8mbc$1q6g1$8@dont-email.me> <10afh2l$3hcc0$1@dont-email.me> <10ag0tf$3l3a7$1@dont-email.me> <10agpn4$3qpp8$2@dont-email.me> <10ah9i6$3v8gp$1@dont-email.me> <10ai0bj$599f$1@dont-email.me> <7ZYzQ.83$Qzga.44@fx10.ams1> <87wm5qckd0.fsf@parhasard.net> <10atv47$2v2db$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net szRNlVjAu51zMryCE/9GEgVwIXgBzNv2reKU6DaBI+brkXXGJD X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:M5nQXA8DphCW2pq2bcNrMOUR4bo= sha256:4jzREEqodEr4xAJxBYTEg0KJgCQjX+0ppUbX59aEyOU= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <10atv47$2v2db$1@dont-email.me> Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:75017 alt.usage.english:1128790 On 2025-09-23 13:08, Peter Moylan wrote: > On 23/09/25 14:06, rbowman wrote: >> On Mon, 22 Sep 2025 21:17:47 +0100, Aidan Kehoe wrote: >> >>> Straying from the subject, I’m sure Iceland would take anyone off >>> a cruise ship with good Icelandic and a plausible facial bone >>> structure if that person asserted his or her Icelandic passport had >>> been lost or stolen. >> >> I'll have to brush up on my Old Norse. > > I'm currently re-reading "Journey to the Centre of the Earth", Jules Verne? > and have > just passed the details of getting from Hamburg to Reykjavik. It was > interesting to see that the central character used his contacts to > ensure that he had letters of introduction to the high authorities in > both Copenhagen and Reykjavik. I don't recall that. Well, I don't recall many details :-) > > I guess there weren't passports in those days. Nor plastic cards. Transferring money most have been cumbersome at least. -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;