Hello all!
I went on to a trip to Europe recently. From January 20 to 24, I was in Iceland, where I did get entry and exit stamp on my way to UK.
Then I took Eurostar from London to Brussels on February 3 or 4, and traveled within EU until April 4, when I flew out of Rome, Italy to United States (I'm an American citizen).
Looking through my passport, I saw that I have NO entry AND NO exit stamp (but did get a stamp of return to United States from the US Border Control).
My passport has a lot of stamps from traveling around Europe two years ago and then to China...so it's not like a completely brand-new passport. It seems that the border guards pretty much just took a look at the passport and waved me through...can't recall now if they took a moment to scan the passport or not.
1) Does that mean there were no record of me spending about 59 days in EU (Belgium to Italy)?
If I flew back to EU right now, would they have any record of my time in EU? Would it be like I have "new" 90 days?
2) I can't recall right now, but does EU airports scan passports to record your entry and exit?
Also, just in case anyone is interested, I came across this floating in the cyberspace:
http://www.overlanddiaries.com/?tag=schengen-zone
Thanks!