Greece and Adriatic 2024

 It was quite nice to have an evening departure as we had the day to do some last minute gardening and catch up with Chris and Percy. We left home and walked up the street to catch a bus to Sutherland, then a train to Hurstville changing for another train to Rockdale and finally a bus to the airport. A total cost of $4.94 each. It was funny to see that the queue to check in for people who had already completed online check in was 3 times as long as the full check in line! Next time I will not bother with online check in especially if like this time we had already paid to choose our seats. With plenty of time to spare we wandered around the duty free shop and pre purchase our alcohol to pick up on our return. We had a pre departure start of the holiday drink at the Peroni bar before boarding the plane. We had a mostly smooth flight and both slept a little on the first leg (14h 20m) to Dubai arriving at 4:25am.We have a 6hr layover and are taking advantage of the credit card lounge acces

 Our itinerary for the next 6 weeks of travel. This will be our first time in Greece, Croatia and Albania, so 3 new flags to add to our collection.  We are flying Emirates via Dubai to Athens then plan to get a train to Piraeus port. Blue star ferry from Piraeus to Paros, Paros to Santorini and Santorini to Naxos. Fast ferries from Naxos to Mykonos and Mykonos to Athens. Our trip to Delos while on Mykonos will be on the regular ferry. Once back on the mainland we have 4 nights in Athens where we will be staying in the Monastiraki area with our Athens City Pass in hand to visit the main archaeological sites. Then we are off on a tour : The Grand classical tour of Greece including Mani and Monemvasia. Next we meet up with my sister Veronica and her husband Steven for an 11 night cruise on the Ionian and Adriatic seas.