(From a reply I sent to my Mum)
you made it in one piece and you breezed through the airport, well done .
Oh it was epic. “Excuse me can I come in on my EU passport even though I left Australia on my AU passport?” “Yes of course” says one of the many, many supermodels working at Rome airport. Cool. Walk to totally empty scanner, look at ENORMOUS queue at the non-EU section, laugh, scan passport, look at facial scanner, oh yeah my hat, reach up to take it off, get scanned *with my arm across my face* – beep! Green light, in I go, walk past security booth, two guys talking to each other, they just wave me through and don’t even look at me.
I’ve just entered Europe.
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Not joking about that supermodels thing, I was very impressed by Italian customer service.