Quite An Adventure

I MANAGED to make rather a meal out of getting back to London.

After breakfast at 07:30, I left my hotel at around 08:00 to walk to the station, which, despite a little ice on the pavements, took no more than 30 minutes.

I bought a train ticket, sat down in the foyer, and thought about reading a book, as the train was not due until 08:54.

Reaching round for my backpack, I discovered it was not there - I had left it in my room!

I could not possibly walk back to my hotel and return to the station in time for my train, and the next one was not until 10:54 - way too late to catch my flight.

Fortunately, in the time I spent in the waiting room, a taxi pulled up to the stand outside of the station.

There ensued a dash back to my hotel, where I collected the missing backpack, and got back to the station with a minute or so to spare.

More stupidity was to follow at Prague airport.

I passed through passport control, but somehow took a wrong turn and, before I knew it, I had re-entered the country.

I was not allowed to simply slip back out, but instead had to start again, making sure I got in the same queue as the first time, so I would be dealt with by the same border guard.

After a brief consultation with a colleague, and a failed telephone call to ask someone in higher authority for advice (no answer on a Sunday!), he stamped my passport with a second exit visa.

My worry is: will the Schengen computers understand what happened, or  when I next enter Europe, will I be accused of having overstayed on my previous visit (if the computers do not understand, I am in serious danger of being thought to have breached the 90-days-in-180 rule)?

The bottom page shows me entering Czechia on Jan 16,  then the top page shows me leaving on Jan 25, re-entering on Jan 25, and then, on the bottom page, leaving again