Athens; Friday, 13 February, 2015

I’d stayed overnight at an airport hotel, partly as didn’t want to try and get in with luggage during the morning rush-hour, but also because up until 48 hours beforehand there was a planned bus strike which would have made getting to Heathrow much more difficult (and expensive). Having checked out of the hotel I caught the bus round to terminal 5 and checked in for the flight.

After an initial delay due to another passenger kicking off about the location of their seat we eventually were all boarded and got away for a smooth flight to Athens.

Having landed it was an exceptionally quick journey through the airport and less than 30 minutes after landing I was on a bus into the centre of Athens.

From Syntagma square I caught the metro out to the hotel and checked in.

Dumping my stuff in the room I headed back into the city centre and wandered down to the bottom of the Acropolis hill before realising that it was actually quite late with the two hour time difference, so I grabbed dinner in a restaurant overlooking the acropolis.

After dinner I walked up the hill to the entrance to the Acropolis site to take some photos before heading back down the hill to get the metro back to the hotel and heading to bed.