Originally Posted by
Bigzamboni
Yeah, they probably had never heard of Finland and were wondering why the passport was embossed with snowflakes and has a running moose when you flip the pages.

I had a Canadian friend fly Delta from JFK to Amsterdam. The agent asked her if she needed a visa for Holland, to which my friend responded "no I don't need a visa for Holland, but I have a work visa for the Netherlands". Agent responded she "didn't know about the Netherlands but it doesn't matter because you are flying to Holland". After a lengthy exchange agent still didn't want to discuss geography, even though Holland is just a province in the Netherlands