Monday – Heading Home

This is a postscript to the voyage, written in the Orpheous Lounge on Monday morning, overlooking Piraeus Harbour, awaiting the call for disembarkation, which, for us, won’t come until 3:15pm this afternoon. An hour’s bus ride to Athens airport will be followed by a further two hour wait for our British Airways flight which is due to leave at 6:30pm. It’s a four-hour flight; when the time is adjusted, however, it means that we’ll arrive in Heathrow Airport at around 8:30pm, UK time. It shouldn’t take more than about a half an hour to ride the Hoppa Bus back to the hotel where our car is waiting for us. A four and a half hour journey should bring us home at around 1:30am tomorrow morning. A long day, then.

Barring any unforseen incidents, I expect this to be my final post until the next cruise assignment, which will be back on the Marco Polo next month, to the Canary Islands.

To all of you out there who have been reading the blog; I hope that it’s been as enjoyable an adventure for you as it has been for me (I see the stats, so I know that there’s a fair number of readers). See you on the Marco Polo…