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One of the things I enjoy about the rec.travel.europe newsgroup is when people take the time to post where they went on holiday, what they did, the places they stayed and how they did it. I've not done this before so if you're not interested in my trip to Greece, thanks for reading this far. The picture on the right is Jerry, Kathryn, Chris and I in front of the Parthenon in Athens. It was very hot and sunny.

Greece - June 1997

Jvi
2004-09-14 10:44:36

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hotel; unfortunately, the hotel had never heard of us and had no rooms. I had stayed in the area (Glyfada) and knew there were plenty of hotels in the area and just walled down the street, found one block away for $44, A/C and shower. Not great but we slept sound. The original hotel was very nice, I turned on the charm, said it was not their fault but could they please give me a statement from the manager saying they had no rooms as I had already paid at the airport by credit card. The manager wrote a statement on the back of the hotel voucher in English. I called the Hotel Reservations desk from the new hotel and asked them to credit the charge. They didn't know how unless they had the credit card so they sent a bus for us. Big mistake as it cost us over an hour. With the hotel statement I could have fought the charge with VISA. By the time we went downtown to the Plaka area it was 10 PM and we were all tired and cross. We had dinner and came back about midnight. The flights home were uneventful but long; 21 hours from the time we left the hotel in Greece until we got home.

We had a great time, with some minor setbacks. Considering we had no advance reservations for lodging (because we did not know exactly where we were going it was a good trip. If there are any comments or questions, let me know.

As an addendum, here are two pictures from a previous trip to Santorini, the cliffs and a picture from the cliffs looking into the sea. John Vittoe June 27, 1997

PS...While we were in Rethymno, Crete, we noticed that there was a ferry that left every night for Pireaus (Athens) at about 7:30 PM. It arrived in Pireaus at 5:30 AM the next morning. There was also a second ferry that left Pireaus at 7:30 PM and arrived in Rethymno, Crete at 5:30 AM. These two made connections to Crete very easy.

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