Rome airport (FCO) departure nightmares
Enjoy your trip. But FYI, getting through passport control <<departing>> FCO took an hour tonight (security took 5 minutes). Am told it's like that every day/night. They've got n row of shiny new passport readers that don't work. And of the 15 booths to check passports, 3 were open while approx 150 angry people waited, sans AC. Why it takes the Italians 5 minutes (average) to put a meaningless exit stamp on each passport is yet another mystery. Everywhere else in the world, this takes 10 seconds.