Retirement Cruise: Athens (Sort Of)
When I decided to retire, I told Darwin I wanted to take a retirement celebration cruise as a splurge. He agreed, and here we are!
On Monday, we flew to Athens, Greece, with a three-hour layover in Boston. The AC in the Boston airport was cranked so high that Darwin and I were shivering in our jeans and t-shirts. We ended up buying two BOSTON sweatshirts to compensate. As a result, we matched!
The flight to Athens was long and dull, but you don't want exciting air travel. The challenge was that it was an overnight flight combined with a seven-hour loss of time. In other words, we left on Monday at 10 AM and landed on Tuesday at 7 AM, but for us it was 12 AM. We decided to try and power through by staying awake all day. Ohhh, it was miserable! We finally caved and slept for a little while, forcing ourselves to get up after only a couple hours. At 11 PM, we went to bed and fell dead asleep.
Meanwhile...Athens. We'd chosen our overnighting place because it was really close to the port, and in that way it was successful. Our landlord even picked us up from the airport! And there were several restaurants nearby. However, we weren't near anything else worth doing, and we didn't want to mess with figuring out a place to visit and dealing with transportation while we were so jet-lagged, so we mostly strolled around the neighborhood. It made for a dull day.
In the morning, our pre-reserved Uber showed up right on time and took us down to the ship without fuss. We breezed through check-in, our luggage was spirited away for security checking, and we got to our room. We like it very much. We have a balcony, and it was lovely to sit and watch the sea and the port.
One nice thing, too: neither of us felt much jet lag.
In the late afternoon, the ship powered up and we sailed away.
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On Monday, we flew to Athens, Greece, with a three-hour layover in Boston. The AC in the Boston airport was cranked so high that Darwin and I were shivering in our jeans and t-shirts. We ended up buying two BOSTON sweatshirts to compensate. As a result, we matched!
The flight to Athens was long and dull, but you don't want exciting air travel. The challenge was that it was an overnight flight combined with a seven-hour loss of time. In other words, we left on Monday at 10 AM and landed on Tuesday at 7 AM, but for us it was 12 AM. We decided to try and power through by staying awake all day. Ohhh, it was miserable! We finally caved and slept for a little while, forcing ourselves to get up after only a couple hours. At 11 PM, we went to bed and fell dead asleep.
Meanwhile...Athens. We'd chosen our overnighting place because it was really close to the port, and in that way it was successful. Our landlord even picked us up from the airport! And there were several restaurants nearby. However, we weren't near anything else worth doing, and we didn't want to mess with figuring out a place to visit and dealing with transportation while we were so jet-lagged, so we mostly strolled around the neighborhood. It made for a dull day.
In the morning, our pre-reserved Uber showed up right on time and took us down to the ship without fuss. We breezed through check-in, our luggage was spirited away for security checking, and we got to our room. We like it very much. We have a balcony, and it was lovely to sit and watch the sea and the port.
One nice thing, too: neither of us felt much jet lag.
In the late afternoon, the ship powered up and we sailed away.
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