(CNN) — What awaits American visitors to Europe this summer is a byzantine and continuously-shifting array of Covid-associated restrictions and registration necessities. It really is form of like shifting mask mandates in the US, just with loads of paperwork and foreign languages thrown in. This is what I found on my Kafkaesque odyssey to Greece in June as an eager but below-ready American.

Would I do it all over again? In a heartbeat. But to start with, right here are all the blunders my husband and I designed on our six-day journey to Europe (about all we could swing with two toddlers at residence), so that you will not make the similar kinds.

When we arrived at a primarily vacant Newark airport on a Sunday night, the Lufthansa test-in agent advised us we would not, even as totally vaccinated travelers, be authorized out of the airport into Germany if we