Back to the Mainland
This morning’s checkout was awful. Remember how we’d been assured that everything was fine and the university had sent through credit card details to the hotel to pay in advance? Well, sure enough they’d sent through the details, but the hotel had not taken the money in advance (purely guessing, but the finance people probably never told them to). Anyway, after much deliberation, they agree to process the payment using those card details, but the credit card machine was having none of it. They tried several times, but it kept coming back saying that the payment was not authorised. After all the hassle of organising for the hotel payment and all the forms we had to fill in, the end result was we ended up having to pay with our own credit cards. Lucky I brought mine with me, or I’d probably be stuck at the hotel right now. At the moment I’m so annoyed. Anyway, we won’t let it spoil the rest of our trip…
We left the hotel at about midday and took a taxi to the airport for our 1335 flight. We probably shouldn’t have been surprised that the plane was late, considering it was an Olympic Airlines flight, and didn’t take off until 1410. This had a knock-on effect when we reached Athens, meaning we had to wait ages for our baggage.
Nick’s father Panos met us at the airport and drove us to their house a few kilometres outside Athens. Nick’s mum Katerina was waiting to greet us with some very welcome and delicious mousaka. Time for a bit of a rest now, in preparation for what promises to be an interesting evening.
