LEAVING LETOJANNI
Our last day in Letojanni I spent the morning having a long breakfast with Rob’s son Benjamin, a bar owner in Portland, Oregon and with Rob and Leslie. Then Tom and I quickly packed up and took the 12:30 train to Catania, another train after a long wait to the airport and then another long wait for a shuttle to the airport, itself. We stayed in a modern hotel International Airport Hotel at the airport, slept poorly, and left for our flight at 5 a.m.. Again I discovered that all of the threats by a budget airline (EasyJet did it, now ITA, a low cost Italian airline) to measure your bags and make you pay for a checked bag were just bluster. No one cared about the size or weight of our bags on either flight and, in fact, forced us to check our bags at no cost to make room in the overhead bins.
We flew to Rome, then to Athens with great connections and met granddaughter Caroline in the Athens airport.
Caroline took over. She guided us by train and then on foot to our marvelous luxury Airbnb with a rooftop view of the Acropolis. The streets of Athens were full of tourist and others eating out in the many outdoor restaurants that lined the streets. and we had a marvelous meal. And then, each of us dead tired we fell asleep early and all had a good night’s sleep.
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 