April 27 - Athens Last day before we fly out to Crete. Bob was still sick (he unfortunately was under the weather for most of the rest of the trip) so we left him behind and headed into Athens. This time we used the Metro and that worked fine too. Apparently the idea of parking at a metro station and taking the train in hasn't caught on here yet - only a few of the stations have lots, this one had a 600-space lot and I think only about 20 were filled. More w...

April 24- Athens Three days into the trip, we finally make our first foray into Athens. On weekdays one of the public commuter buses makes a stop right at the resort, and we decided that would be our best bet for getting into the city without having to drive or park in the city. (On the way in, I scouted the location of a metro station with a parking garage, so we will go that way on our second trip). It takes about an hour and a quarter, not too bad. Traffic ...

First Days of the Greece Trip (April 20-22, 2012) We began planning this trip back in November of 2010, when our friends and longtime travel compatriots Ingrid and Bob told us they had extra timeshare points and wanted to "take" us somewhere (in return for us bringing them along when we used our timeshare week in Spain in 2009). We also managed to get all four plane tickets through Rob's airline points, making the trip quite a bargain. As I recall, the fin...