Greece
Athens
Our New Friend Maria
Up early today, not
the best sleep ever. Organized, easy start to the day, finalized our bill and
away we went to the Rome International Airport named Fiumicino or Leonardo da Vinci.
We were flying low with our taxi driver Alexander zooming along around
140 – 150 kmph (at times)! We arrived in plenty of time for our flight out at
11a.m. (got there at 8:30). Aegean A3651 was 15 minutes late leaving but the
pilot made up time and we landed on schedule at 2 p.m. (lost an hour going
further east). Met by Savvas Papasavvas, agent for Amphitrion Holidays -very
friendly, very helpful. Our taxi driver
(who’s getting married next week!) took us to hotel in downtown Athens (population
5 million of Greece’s 11.5 million people).
We are in the penthouse suite of the Best Western Amazon Hotel – first time
ever for us. We have a view from our
patio of the Acropolis and the Parthenon.
Wicked cool!!! We settled in, did some shopping and then had a lovely
supper at our newest friend Maria’s restaurant. Back to our room to have a look
at the Parthenon all lit up. Off on our cruise tomorrow, on the ship the Louis
Olympia. For those of you following this
blog, we will not likely post again until we reach Santorini (Sunday 19 Aug
2012). So please stay tuned.
More to follow …
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