Bonus Nugget from Schipol Airport

Because the G7 conference is soon to start in Italy, airport security is amped up. Had to take liquids and computers out of carry on, go through the 360 X-ray machine AND a pat down. Yet not a blink of the eye at knitting needles in my carry on. Now to see if our newly acquired Global Entry works in Rome. We're carrying a letter from HAL for immigration. Seems the Frenchies in Brest decided not to entry stamp our passports so we have not officially entered another country. This happened to us once before at this very airport. I think we finally showed the official our itemized bar bill from the ship to prove we really had traveled from the US to Europe. Another of my Susan Bourne experiences with passport control.