October 4 - Bye, bye Athens! Hello Odyssey!

Today was another lovely day.  We were informed late last night that our pick-up time from the hotel was changed to a few  hours earlier because some of the roads in Athens were going to be closed due to a demonstration.  At breakfast our waiter told us that today the head of the Communist party in Greece would be speaking in front of the Parliament Building.  In the words of the waiter “he is going to try to convince us we should become North Korea.”

Acropolis at night from our hotel

There was a lot of activity around the hotel but no problems.  We were whisked to the port in Piraeus and on the ship by 12:30.  By the time we had lunch our suitcases were in our room. After muster drill we had our meet & greet with our Cruise Critic group.  Given the fact that the ship only carries 450 passengers, we had an amazing turnout.  We had 28 people there.  We chatted and had a few drinks until we sailed away from Piraeus.

The Odyssey is as lovely as her sister the Quest and our cabin is as nice as we remembered it.  After a good dinner we turned in since tomorrow will be an early and busy day.

Al on our balcony (Piraeus in background)

Our home away from home bath

The "Conservatory" enclosed bath part of our balcony