Ok, so my wife and I have arrived in the UK and it's time to update you on our detour to Paris. As we approached HKG by bus a pretty huge storm hit us. I've seen more rain before, but never so much lightning. Our flight to Paris was, perforce, delayed and we arrived at CDG nearly three hours behind ...

Does your wife hold a Hong Kong SAR passport or a British National Overseas passport? If so she is visa free in Schengen anyway. Unfortunately she has a mainland Chinese passport, which is one of the worst to travel on. As a British passport holder I sometimes forget how lucky I am to be able to ju...

Thanks for the advice, Christian. I know the time is short, but we have been advised by friends in Paris that the metro can get you right into the centre of town pretty quickly. It'll be about rush hour when we arrive, and we've been told that a taxi could take over an hour in bad traffic. Even that...

Hi, I'm in a slightly different (and more tricky) boat. I've been around the web for hours trying to find something definitive. I've printed out the Directive in French (because I'm going to France), but it still isn't exactly 'straight forward'. Grateful for advice. I'm a UK citizen (full British p...