The Start … For Half
This morning proved an interesting start to the conference. It seemed as if the turn out was pretty low. In reality, many delegates were stranded in various places in Greece: The flights to Samos that were due to depart from Athens after ours were cancelled yesterday, a ferry to one of the other small islands did not return last night after a fishing net got stuck in its propeller, and a ferry from Turkey was also cancelled.
After the morning sessions, we had a very nice lunch in one of the hotel restaurants. Plenty to choose at the self-service buffet, I went for lamb (a bit like chops, but nothing like those in the UK!) with vegetables and some wonderful potatoes and onion. I tell you, Greek food is good! Its just a pity the weather is too hot to eat more of it.
After attending one of the afternoon sessions, the lack of sleep really started to catch up with me, so I took a short nap. Now I’ve woken up, I feel a lot brighter.
Later we plan to go to Vath�, which my guidebook claims is actually the island’s capital (also called Samos) by a different name. We’ll see…
