Greetings From Athens

The absolutely weirdest thing happened when I turned on blogger today, it's all in Greek. Good thing I know where most of the publishing crap lives so hopefully I can make this work. If there is anybody out there who can tell me how to switch this back to English, now would be the time to leave a coment, please. Failing that I'm going to have have to ask my blogger friend here in Athens to help me out.

So a little about the trip first. We duly appeared at the airport at noon on Sunday for a 2 pm direct flight to Athens. Upon arrival we discovered that Olympic Airlines had changed the flight to a 5 pm departure and no one told us. Kind of dumb of me not to phone before we left but I had so many things to remember to do at home I forgot, sigh... The 5 pm departure turned into 7:30 in the end and by the time we were air bound I was already exhausted. The flight itself was uneventful, the food not particularly good and as expected the cabin crew weren't very friendly. This is the one airline I hate flying on but it's the only direct to Athens.

As expected it was very very hot here and if I looked kind of spaced out in the below photo it's because I am. I am trying to stay awake, though it's difficult. My brother in law took my blood pressure and down right freaked out it was so high but this morning after a good night's sleep I feel human again. Today we are off to Ikea to shop for the house we will be calling home for the next 7 weeks with bare essentials, like a bed...need one of those. The other essential today is to get my cell phone working. The weather is cooperating today and it's warm, sunny with a nice breeze. Tomorrow, it's the beach...