How many countries are in your passport?
 

I have none yet.

Lots, but it's been pretty boring since the implementation of the Schengen accords. All the participating EU stamps look the same. What are some cool stamps I should try to get? I want a Canadian maple leaf, but I don't think they'll give me one in my US passport.

how many countries?
 

Current US passport (since 1998) 16 countries (including visa for Kenya) covering Singapore, UK, Japan, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Portugal, Kenya, Netherlands, Macau, Dominica, Antigua & Barbuda, Belize, Slovenia, Italy, St. Lucia. In some cases more than one visit to the country. Good for another 4 years but only about 4 blank pages left.

Previous US passport (1988-1998) 10 countries (including visas for Brazil and France) covering Brazil, Costa Rica, Netherlands, UK, Italy, Dominican Republic, Sweden, Malta, Bermuda, France. More than one visit to some.

Antigua & Barbuda stamp is kind of cool - pretty large with a fancy crest in the top left.

Tell me about it!
 

I got a ton of grief and major attitude from a Canadian customs agent last time I asked this. :rolleyes:

I always perfer not to get my passport stamped---it saves me time from having to send the thing in for extra pages.

Do they even exist?
 

because I don't think it ("maple leaf") exists. I, as a Canadian, asked for a stamp once so I could prove (if I had to later) that I had left the U.S. The Canadian entry stamp is just a plain box. Nothing fancy.

I have had my passport since 1995 and only have stamps from Mexico in it. Good grief, I need more international assignments. ;)

I have couple of them, mostly of European countries.

But I still keep my old expired passport with stamps from ex-DDR and san marino (with 2000-lira "visa") :-)

In the current Canadian one which expires in November, so I guess within the last 4½ years, 16 pages full, 1 half full, 2 blank (which will get filled up this summer in Europe)
Malaysia(9)
Holland(5)
United Arab Emirates, Singapore, USA, Macao, Hong Kong(4)
Finland(3)
Austria,Australia,Hungary,Germany,UK,Japan,Thailan d,Brunei,China(2)
Denmark,New Zealand,Russia,Belarus(1)
plus full page visa from PRChina and student visa from New Zealand.

In addition my recently expired Polish passport had Poland(8),Slovakia(2),Estonia(2)

What stamps?
 

There are no passport controls within Schengen, and I don't need a passport to travel to/from the UK either (Greek ID card does the job as well and hasn't got an expiry date either). So I only have two Slovak and a Polish one.

My current passport is less than a year old and IIRC has about 5 pages full and several used with one or two stamps. Of course it would be fuller if it weren't for Schengen, or if you got stamped when transiting.

I have 2 current passports - one 3 years old and very full, one 1 year old

3 year old
Saudi Arabia - loads
Singapore - loads
Hong Kong - loads
Thailand
Malaysia
Philippines
S Korea
Indonesia
India
UAE
Bahrain
Turkey
Poland
China
Russia
Ukraine
Sri Lanka
Vietnam
USA
Canada
Guatemala (very pretty!)
Belize
Peru
Bolivia
Zambia
Zimbabwe

1 year old
Romania
Turkey
Moldova
Hong Kong
Singapore
Japan
USA
Canada
Egypt
Indonesia

The Antigua & Barbuda one is :cool:

I have two different types of Canadian stamps in my passport - an airport one (red, with a maple leaf border), and a land border one (blue, with a plain border and with half a maple leaf either side of the date)

Other stamps in my current passport - loads of US ones, some Czech, Polish and Lithuanian ones (I bet they won't be stamping EU passports any more now), a couple of Romanian ones and one from Norway. Don't know why the Norwegians stamped my passport on that occasion - they don't normally stamp EU passports, I think someone must have stamped it by mistake (it was late in the evening and he looked half asleep!)

My first-ever passport had some East German stamps in it - about two pages per visit. I've still got it somewhere. Probably a collectors' item!

Issued May 2001

British Virgin Islands
Frankfurt (entrace and exit via air)
London Heathrow (2)
Spain (entrace via Boat)
Mexico (3)
Belize (entrace and exit)
Guatemala (entrace and exit)
Zambia
Malawi
Netherlands (entrace via air)
Australia (entry and exit)
Austria (car exit and entry)
Malaysia (exit and entry)
Botswana
Chec Republic (car exit and entry)
Morocco (exit and entry)
Namibia
Thailand
South Africa (visa sticker and entry/exit stamps)
Mozambique (1 page visa and exit/entry stamps)

Next stop, Asia Pacific Rim or South America....

personally, I think passport stamps are real cool, I enjoy seeing other's stamps and sharing mine. Because of blank page requirements, I had to get extra pages added to mine in Lusaka, Zambia at the American Embassy. Surprisingly it was done within 15 minutes.

matt