Final Thoughts

Sitting in Departures at Athens Airport awaiting our flight home. The most dangerous part of flying is the taxi ride to the airport! Another 140kmh trip using all lanes plus shoulders. Still have 30 euros left. Mind you that does not include credit charges!! I blame Pauleen for my temporary loss of financial prudence on Santorini. Pictured are two of the purchases that took Tess by surprise. Oh well, who knows when we will be back? Have promised the box to Tim in the Will so I guess Em gets the amber.

We arrived at Piraeus about 10 pm and with no transfer booked Tess accepted the invitation of a sandal wearing man of a taxi ride to our hotel. We headed away from the taxi rank and arrived at his car - nothing to identify it as a taxi - and I soon noticed it had no meter (broken apparently). Unlike our taxi from the airport, there was no GPS to navigate to our hotel but fortunately I recalled it was near Omonia (?) Square and he knew that place. The trip was unremarkable except for the final kilometre when he drove down a dark and narrow alley. I could tell Tess was concerned but I recognized a shortcut when I saw one and sure enough a few turns later we emerged onto Ahernon Street up from some no doubt annoying traffic lights or perhaps a no left turn intersection and quickly arrived at the City Plaza. 

30 euros poorer I was not impressed when reception said they had no booking for us - it was now approaching midnight - but we knew things would improve after a meal on their rooftop looking out over the illuminated Parthenon, and so it proved. I will not miss the tobacco smell of Greek hotel rooms.

BTW, I should have fixed the problem with accessing the Google Earth files. Let me know.
Until Oz.
Yassu
Finis