Off to Athens

We woke up to yet another good breakfast - but nothing beats that bacon at the B&B (Fairfield Windermere). Checked out at 9am, refueling the car and dropping back at Avis. Shuttle bus to Heathrow Terminal 2 where we were making extraordinarily good time! We couldn't see the checkin counter for our flight anywhere - a quick enquiry at the Olympic Airlines sales desk showed that our flight had been cancelled due to a strike. Thankfully we had been changed to a later flight, so the only real difference was spending an extra 4 hours sitting in the departure lounge. They did give us 8 pounds each in vouchers for the inconvenience though. Through security this time Will forgot to remove his phone and wallet - he set the detector off which resulted in him getting frisked - making the score even!
Checked email & facebook for 20 minutes (2 pounds each), got lunch on our vouchers (Meredith - chicken ceaser salad, Will - ham & mozarella panini) and called our Mum's to say Happy Mothers Day! We sat in the lounge waiting, waiting for a gate - then suddenly we heard last call for OA270 at Gate 10! Can't say we heard the first call! Anyhow we were delayed and waiting on passengers & didn't take off until 5pm. We reached Athens at 10:05pm (3hr flight with 2hr time difference).
From the airport we caught a bus as it stopped at Constitution Square - well the Greek don't use the English name, it is known as Syntagma Square - so that barrier caused some havoc for us, so we got the X95 bus in town which was quite fast! Then the town map we had didn't have the street laneway marked on it where the hotel was, so it wasn't very helpful! We had a local guy give us a rough guide where to go from his own map. Finally in bed at 1am!