Originally Posted by flying_geek

So the Austrian Embassy got back to me and said:

"Oh, as a UK citizen you can still enter like any Schengen citizen. What we have on our web site is wrong."
"Is there a place where I can find that in writing?"
"No"
"So how should I know it is like you describe?"
"Because I say so"

Conversation was in German with classic Austrian disinterested connotation.
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