4/1/11, 3:31 pm London time

Well, I'm stuck in Heathrow until 8:00 pm. Continental failed to reserve me a seat on the 4 pm flight to Athens so now I have to wait until the 8 pm flight. In Athens I'll take a taxi in to the hotel and then have them bring the car to me. It will only throw my schedule off one day so it's not too bad. I've had to change all my hotel reservations and car rental reservations on my iPod Touch from Heathrow Airport. It's amazing that I can do all of that from my tiny iPod but it worked. All of the hotels emailed back with confirmations and Swifty Car Rental in Athens said they would deliver the car to the hotel at 10 am tomorrow morning.

8:30 pm London Time

Finally on a flight to Athens. After dealing with a headache and an upset stomach at Heathrow, I'm on a plane that looks like it will leave on time. It's an Aegean Airlines flight and the plane looks new, very clean, LED lights everywhere and comfortable seats. The attendants are all women and the Greek men all flirt with them. They are very laid back and smile and then ignore the men. It's a four hour flight and we were served a full meal. Nice. Some sort of ground meat patty, lamb?

3/31/11

Well, the first day to Greece is already a mess. Due to weather at Newark, NJ my flight leaving Louisville was held and I missed my connection to Zurich. The airline (Continental) rebooked me to Paris for a connection there on Aegean Airlines. When I got to Newark I was rebooked thru London/Heathrow so I could get to Athens earlier. Now, the flight at Newark is delayed until 11:42 pm, leaving me with 5 minutes to make my connection in London. I'm afraid I'm going to miss that connection, too. That will mean getting to Athens too late to drive to Delphi. If I can I will stay in Athens and drive to Delphi the next morning. This is turning into a nightmare! I am dependent on the rental company to deliver the car but I don't know the exact time I will arrive in Athens. There is the outside chance that Aegean Airlines will have no seats. Then I'll be stuck in Heathrow, possibly overnight. The next problem is should I take my Ambien on the flight over? If I don't sleep, I'll be dead when I get to Athens. It's a 4 hour flight from London to Athens and I could sleep off the effects of the sleeping pill then. We'll see. So far my trip to Greece has rewarded me with the exotic food of Starbucks.

This is going to be the experiences I had while in Greece for Spring Break 2011. I'm composing this from my journal I kept so if it goes back and forth between tenses, sorry.

The trip was for a week in early April, March 31-April 8, 2011.

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