After nearly forty years crossing borders for work and pleasure, Karen offers tips on how to deal with Aussie Customs officers who want to talk about cricket, Polish flight officials after a missed connection and how to get someone allegedly residing at a death row institution, INTO the USA to play the viola. She will discuss the tendency of large items of luggage to misbehave and what to do if you’ve chartered a plane to fly to Orkney when the air traffic control computer has gone down. She also shares the fear of the wall of shame in the Libyan customs hall.