What's your shortest stay in any one country?

[Stat Brother]

Not including scheduled flight, stop overs.

Easy, I know I have shamelessly stolen this from Danny Baker (I'm just surprised you aren't going to fixture me!).

My 2 are Mexico, over the Rio Grande, I didn't fancy it so turned round and went back to Texas, 10 mins later.
Also Andorra, slightly difficult to time as we didn't realise we'd strayed in to the Principality until we past a 'you are now leaving Andorra' sign, nevertheless it could only have been counted in minutes.

 

[bhaexpress]

Fifteen minutes in Munich on a 'beer run' In fact in the process of doing several of these I didn't actually get off the plane.

 

[shoreham moonraker]

10 minutes in belize to get my visa renewed

 

[Juan Albion]

However long it takes to drive across Liechtenstein.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

I went to Egypt for a day once. Got to see the pyramids & Cairo museum (i.e. King Tuts goodies) - there's nothing else there, is there ?

 

[User removed 4]

25 minutes on Ascension Island.

 

[We're the Stripes]

Netherlands (Eindhoven) for an afternoon.

 

[clippedgull]

I completed,

UK-USA(New York,Las Vegas, Hawaii)-Australia-Borneo-China-India-Dubai-South Africa-Egypt-UK in a total of 23 days in early 2007!

I think my body clock is still not quite right.

 

[Djmiles]

About 10 hours in Ireland.

 

[sam86]

15 minutes in USA. Was crossing from Canada, got told to stay in customs or border control, whatever it's called, was then interviewed for about 10 minutes, had to have my picture taken, prints taken, and then got sent back to Canada.

We were on a family trip, and only wanted to step into the States to say we'd been there!

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

Hong Kong. Probably about an hour on both occasions while travelling from UK to China and back. Got a car through on the way there and a train and bus on the way back.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

A stop for a drink in Serbia before going on to Montenegro.

 

[Safeway]

Drove around Gretna for about 10 minutes before Carlisle away a few years ago, just to say we'd been to Scotland.

 

[Cromwell Road Gull]

Whilst working as a football (soccer) coach in the US a few years back, 4 of us flew to Perto Rico for a weeks training camp there.

It was cancelled mid flight so we quite literally got to the airport before rechecking in for he flight back.

Absolutely gutted at the time

 

[Juan Albion]

Come to think of it, I put my toes into East Germany once in the middle of nowhere. There were markers in the ground showing the border and the massive fence was about 100 yards away with machine gun towers and everything, so I wasn't about to risk more than one foot's worth of toes. Probably a few mines in there, too.

 

[Gully]

Basel in Switzerland, for the afternoon, we went to the zoo...there didn't appear to be anything else open, or worth seeing, but it was a Sunday.

 

[brunswick]

ireland. many years ago i arrived to do software project at the airport, fell out with the clients over the contract, told them i would get the next plane back unless they sorted it - they didn't i told them to do one and walked off.......to 15 dropped jaws.

had to explain to my boss about an 80k contract up in smoke as they pissed me off :-0

overall time in ireland 1hour 30 mins - still got to chat to roy keane who i bumped into.

 

[newhaven seagull 85]

about approx 1/2 hour in luxemboug on the way to austria

 

[Barrel of Fun]

5 minutes in Mozambique for a long pee.

 

[Easy 10]

62 minutes in Dusseldorf, because the useless Turkish pilot got lost on the way back from Bodrum. VERY lucky it wasn't longer.

(Fair play Stat Brother - Danny Bakers show is a RICH little goldmine of potential NSC threads)