So, I majorly misunderstood how the visa system works over here. There is this agreement (the Schengen Accords) between almost all of the continental EU members that regulates how visas are handled. I thought that through that agreement I was allowed to stay ninety days in each country. It turns out that it is only 90 days for all of the member countries combined! Right now I'm at 76 days! Which means that if I stay in the Schengen Zone for more than another two weeks, I'll be breaking international law.
Obviously, this is throwing a wrench in my plans. I hadn't planned to far in advance so that's nice because I don't need to cancel trains and that kind of stuff but my plane back to the states isn't until July 27th and I'm supposed to be in Norway and Spain for a month and a half combined.
Argh, I'd been planning to go to Italy and Switzerland and France for the next month until my cousin's wedding. But if I do that I'll definitely go over the 90 day limit and I have to leave the Zone, which means my passport will get checked, to catch my flight to Norway.
I could risk all that to experience everything. A lot of sites I've found online say most people don't experience anything too bad but if I overstay when I try to leave the border guard will see that I've overstayed and I could be arrested, deported and blacklisted from visiting any Schengen country for the next five years! argh
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