Thursday, May 30, 2019

May 26 - Athens, London, and Home



We docked in Piraeus, the port for Athens, on Sunday morning.  After a final breakfast we gathered our carry-on bags and disembarked.  Our luggage had been placed on a cart already, along with a bag that didn’t belong to us.  After sorting that out, our driver met us and we were off to the Athens airport.  We had a long wait before the ticket counter opened but we had a place to sit and it was entertaining  people-watching.

Our flight to Heathrow was uneventful.  Due to schedules and my fear of making tight connections, we opted to stay overnight at the Sofitel Heathrow attached to T-5.  We’ve stayed there before and it’s quite nice.  On Monday morning we were able to check in and check our luggage for our flight to Dulles right in the hotel lobby.  How convenient that was!

Our flight was on time and very nice.  I do like daylight flights better than overnight ones.  We arrived a few minutes early, zipped through the Global Entry kiosk (what a great thing that is!), snagged our bags and a porter, and found our driver waiting with a sign.  Wonder of wonders, traffic was great going down I-95 and I-64.  We were home by 5:30 PM.  It’s always great to be home!

So ends our 2019 odyssey, or as Al has called it “The Last Crusade.”

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