We left Atlanta at 4:30pm, a veritable footrace - Helios in his Golden Chariot to the west, us on a Delta flight to the east. Helios won, beating us to the mountains of Athens by several hours. We touched down on Thursday at 10:20am local time. Worst flight ever by the way: no lights to read by, back of the plane so people bumping into me for 10 hours, maybe the worst airline food in the history of trans-Atlantic flights, archaic video system...bad, in short (too late).
The good news was we got in early (tailwinds of over 100 miles per hour at times). The bad news was we got in early - had to wait nearly 90 minutes for our hotel room to become available. Worth the wait though - view of the Acropolis and Parthenon from our window (pics to follow later tonight). Tooled around the Plaka this afternoon. Had a gyro - delish (pics to follow). We have an hour of downtime before dinner on the roof of the hotel. (We've switched hotels - info to follow.)
We are here safe and sound. It's hot. More later.
Looking forward to pictures!!
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