Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site aluxe.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!aluxz!aluxe!2141smh From: 2141smh@aluxe.UUCP (henning) Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.tavel Subject: Re: Re:Re:ID & Passports in Europe Message-ID: <315@aluxe.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Aug-84 23:28:52 EDT Article-I.D.: aluxe.315 Posted: Mon Aug 20 23:28:52 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Aug-84 03:34:11 EDT References: <179@whuxl.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Allentown, PA Lines: 12 **** **** From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA aluxe!2141smh => My experience (and that of my friends) is that quite a few NON-COMMUNIST Western => European nations (including Sweden, Switzerland, and France (also perhaps => West Germany)) have either a) nationally issued ID cards and/or b) requirements => for vistors to register with the local police (OK - when you check into a hotel => the hotel does it for you by taking your passport over to the police). I have been in all of the West European countries and never gave up my passport once or got any ID card. You always show it to hotel clerks but they don't take it.