Great flight on Olympic airlines to Chania, Krete- with assigned seats, a free coffee and even a small container of yummy Greek biscuits with chocolate inside (much to our great delight!) And thus began our much dreamed about time on an island in Greece. Mary admits that ever since watching Zorba, the Greek as a child, she has always dreamed of spending her days on a Greek island.
For the first time ever, we were met at the airport by Dave (our 5W host), holding a sign with OUR names on it! Over the course of our travels, we have had fantasized much about what it might be like to be greeted by a sign bearing stranger at the arrival gate of an airport. Throughout this adventure, some of the most challenging times have been arriving in a new culture and trying to sort out the new money, the mass transit and the moving of our luggage (we must explain that Mary’s roller bag has developed a bum wheel, making it incredibly difficult to roll, the bane of our travel experience thus far, threatening to dislocate both of our shoulders, and as of yet she has not replaced it, but she is trying to). So the sheer luxury of having someone meet us at the airport is a gift greater than one could imagine. (galleons of gold Euros is what it is worth!)
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