We left Naxos this morning at 11:30am on a Hellenic Seaways highspeed boat. We made one stop at Paros island before we made it to Athens. Who would've known that the metro system would be on strike the last day we are here!!! We were encouraged to use the busses to get to the Athens airport, but we kept seeing people filtering into the train depot so we waited around to find out if anything was running. A janitor took pity on the obvious tourists and told us to take the train (she even pointed to the right one) to Monastiraki where we could change to the train bound for the airport. How did she know where we were going??!?!?
The strike was scheduled to last until 5:00pm (we began our train extravaganza at 3:45), so we figured we'd just ride as far as we could and then either wait until 5:00 to go further or get a taxi. Turns out, we didn't even have to wait. We were able to stay on our train all the way to Eleftherios Venizelos airport, where we checked in (one day early) and caught a shuttle to the Holiday Inn Athens.
So here we sit, with dinner in our bellies (expensive hotel dinner) ready to go to sleep. We'll be taking the 4:30am shuttle back to the airport to catch our 6:35am flight from Athens to Amsterdam, and from Amsterdam we'll fly to Houston. We are pretty excited to get home to our own couches, bed, and closet instead of suitcase. I'm not sure how ready we are for the summer humidity though. It's dry heat in Greece, so we've been pretty spoiled the past two weeks.
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