Subject: Post: Aargh. I just love the airports. This has been a long night, and I'm starting to just find it hilarious instead of annoying.<p>First, Air Baltic had changed the flight schedule, so the flight will depart an hour later than what our tickets say. That was not yet much of a problem..<p>While we were waiting for the check-in counter to open, I wandered around the airport taking a few photos, gaining attention of a security guard and earning myself an extra security check. When the guard flipped through my passport and saw the Syrian, Iraqi etc stamps I knew the conversation would be long...<p>Well, it wasn't that bad, and I was let back waiting. Before the check-in we had to go through a security check, and after half an hour of queuing and being questioned again, I was told I had won another extra security check. The reason turned out to be the black sea mud, which I had in my bag in form of a cosmetic product. The mud had to travel in a separate huge cardboard box with a security guy explaining the situation to the airline. Well, I had never thought mud could be considered a terrorist weapon or something like that.<p>The next trouble followed on the check-in desk. It was not exactly easy to get the girl there to believe we really wanted her to check us in only until Riga, not Helsinki as our tickets said. She insisted that we needed tickets out of Riga, which we really didn't see any reason for as Finland and Latvia are both schengen countries. Some moments of confusion, and we got our boarding passes to Riga.. Or, I got, Don was told he was missing a security check sticker and had won an extra security check also :)<p>Lets see what comes next.... Latitude: Longitude: Security Code:
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