What's your shortest stay in any one country?

[Cian]

However long it takes to drive across Liechtenstein.

Ditto.

On a recurring basis though I frequently spend about 6 minutes in the UK, driving through Culloville (a road from two bits of the Republic passes through one town in NI).

 

[Cosmic Joker]

If not getting off a through train counts then it would have to be when I took the one from Marseilles to Italy which stops in Monaco for a couple of minutes before going on its way.
In the same vien it takes not very long to pass through France on the Eurostar to Brussels including the stop at Lille.
Have also done the motorway dash from the Tunnel to the Belgian border en-route to Bruges or Antwerp a few times.

The shortest time i've spent in a country i'd purposely intended to visit would have to be Helsingborg, Sweden which is a short ferry ride from Helsingor, Denmark. It was a day trip from Copenhagen about 20 years ago. But Helsingborg was so dull I was on the next ferry back to Denmark within the hour and spent more time in Hamlet's Castle (Helsingor=Elsinore). Still haven't been back to Sweden.

 

[Pinkie Brown]

About ten minutes in Belguim on a tobacco run from Calais.

 

[sams dad]

I once drove from Germany into Luxembourg, on into Belgium, and back into Germany, all in the space of about 20 minutes.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I saw quite a lot of Khazakstan from a train, but only spent fifteen minutes with my feet on the ground there, when the train stopped at Petropavl (or Petropavlovsk, as it was called at the time).

 

[Lady Bracknell]

Feet on the ground in Khazakstan, sir? What, all the time, sir?

 

[clippedgull]

That's crazy! What on earth was that for?

It was crazy, and I won't be repeating it! But it was a blast at the time

Around the world in 23 days - and one jet | Environment | The Guardian for the details!

 

[cheeseroll]

Visa run to Macau, got back on the same HK ferry i'd come in on 10 minutes later with duty frees.

 

[8ace]

I know you said not stopover/transfers BUT when flying to New Zealand via LA I had to queue for 1 3/4 hours to go thru US immigration, got thru, and immediately had to hand the rest of my green card back to re board the plane. The cunts wouldn't even let me have a slash

 

[clapham_gull]

5 minutes max in the Czech Republic. Walking in the mountains in Poland I walked past a white marker in the ground.

Was about to post the same thing, but it was Czechoslovakia when I did it and the communists were still running Poland.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Drove to Wales and back from Brighton in a day one crazy time. Some kind of playoff football match.

 

[Trufflehound]

I once drove from Germany into Luxembourg, on into Belgium, and back into Germany, all in the space of about 20 minutes.

I've walked that little trio in about one minute. To do it any quicker than that though you'd have to roll up your trouser legs and get wet as the actual point where the three countries meet is in the middle of a river.

Which brings me to today's boring and pointless trivia: other languages have a word for these remarkable little singularities where three or more countries join together (in German it's a Dreiländereck; in Dutch a drielandenpunt), yet we don't in English? Why? Because if you think about it, virtually no significant Anglophone countries have any: the UK, Ireland, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand can't muster up a single one of the little buggers between them. Of large English-speaking lands, only South Africa has any at all.

 

[Trufflehound]

And today's border-related teaser question:

How long is the land border between the Netherlands and France?

 

[defrocked priest]

Chile for one hour,never left the plane.

 

[Gazwag]

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!

not sure that actually counts though as isnt the area between border controls not actually in a country.

Mine is an afternoon in Gibralter and about half an hour on a coach in Germany whilst travellingfrom the Airport in Austria to the ski resort

 

[Spiros]

About 20 years ago I was driving a minibus of guys back from Amsterdam when we missed the turn-off for the ferry port and accidently ended up in Belgium. We turned round at the first junction so were probably in the country for about 5-10 minutes (though it seemed much longer as it was getting a bit tight to catch the ferry). That's what happens when the navigator is the only non-driver in the group and he's using the back of the ferry ticket for the map. Then it was pedal to the metal all the way to the ferry port arriving by the skin of our teeth.

 

[Trigger]

About 25 minutes in Scotland, it smelt funny.

 

[The Phoenix]

Scotland for seven hours last week. Seven hours too long.

 

[Dave the OAP]

And today's border-related teaser question:

How long is the land border between the Netherlands and France?

twentysevenmillionthreehundredandfiftyninethousandtwohundredandfivepointthreetwosixcentimeters

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

And today's border-related teaser question:

How long is the land border between the Netherlands and France?

ummmm, unless i'm being a thickozoid, there isn't one

or is it an anti-belgian joke?