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September 1999

Greece (Nafplio), Crete (Matala and Rethymnon), Italy (Tuscany and the Cinque Terre), Monaco and the South of France.

Jvi
2004-09-14 11:44:18

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I get quite a few emails from people who have read our travelogues. Most people write that they had made a similar trip and re-lived it through our travelogue and pictures. Some write and thank me for the information they get from the travelogue and some mention that reading the travelogue has encouraged them to put up their own travels. Whatever, it has been worth the effort and we have met quite a few friends through the Internet.

This trip, to Greece, Italy and Monaco occurred in September 1999. Ordinarily, I would not recommend going to three countries on one trip but we had some places to go and people to see. We booked our roundtrip tickets direct through British Airways, Chicago to Athens via London and returned Nice (France) to Chicago via London . We booked our other flights through Microsoft’s Expedia and flew on Olympic Airways from Athens to Iraklion, Crete, and then Iraklion, Crete, to Rome, Italy via Athens.

I attempted to book the British Airways flights through Expedia but could not. Even the Olympic Flights were a problem as every time I checked the status I was informed that the carrier had not comfirmed my reservations but then one day the tickets arrived and the status never changed on the website. I had to change my Olympic Flights after the tickets arrived to coordinate meeting up with some friends and since the tickets had no restrictions, I called Expedia only to be told I would have to send the tickets back by mail before they would change them. I called Olympic direct and they changes the flights without question. I did stop in to their Chicago office and they physically changed my tickets, adding one of those yellow stickers airlines use to change your ticket. I felt safer going with a ticket that was correct. Next time I will go directly through Olympic Airlines.

Olympic Airlines seems to have fixed rates for the flights between the islands and I don’t believe you can get much of a reduction, you ...