The plan... travel from Rethimon to Heraklion to Athens to London to Washington.
Bus, plane, plane, train, plane!
Farewell from the tour. A fantastic tour, well run, plenty of flexibility, plenty of camaraderie, plenty of balance between military-cultural-ancient history.
Karen writing here - To start the day, a vote of thanks was given to both Graham and Matt by Peter, on behalf of the group. We had prepared a booklet so everyone could write a personal comment to the guys. We then travelled as a group (minus 2 members who are remaining on Crete for 3 more days) to the airport.
A quick flight across the Sea of Crete and we were back in Athens. Final farewalls as various members of our group went in many different directions.
We had some time in the British Airlines lounge before loading bound for Heathrow.
This trip took 3 and a half hours, I got to sit next to a Greek University lecturer who enjoyed a chat hence I got no sleep or sewing done, he was full of interesting stories including ones about the Alps we flew over (very spectular - covered in snow), and why the plane hits turbulance at this point. As we were landing I got to see London Bridge. A short stop over, then a bigger flight from Heathrow through to Washington. That took 7.5 hours, by this stage they tried to trick us by closing the screens on the windows so that we could sleep as the time change was back four hours. Any way it might have worked a bit on Peter (although he can sleep anywhere) but I was not to be tricked so easily. I got to watch 3 movies - none I'll rave about as they were not so great, the pick however was Russell Crow in The Last Three Days.
Feeling very, very tired we arrived at 8pm Washington time but 4am Athens time!!!! We boarded a shuttle bus that kept us waiting for 30 minutes so he could get more passengers.
In the Hotel Helix at just after 11pm shower then bed aaahhhh. A huge day of travelling. Too tired to take much in on the drive from the airport to the hotel.
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