After the fun of getting to the ferry last night, we sat on deck with the truckers who made up the majority of the passengers. And a beery leery lot they looked as well. The ferry was a working one and so lots of trucks on board from Eastern Europe either heading home to Albania or taking goods to Greece. It was good to see the lights of Bari move away from us. The wind picked up and everyone headed indoors. There was a seated area where the likes of us travellers could crash out. It was air conditioned and so colder inside than out.

Grant was lucky and managed to crash out despite Bizarro tv blasting away. It was a 3 hour Pope special with celebrities and the church discussing what the Pope had recently said about marriage and gays, absolutely thrilling. Not. it was a bit like BBC Question time where everyone has their two bobs worth and nothing worthy comes of it. Personally I'd have rather watched a couple of episodes of Father Ted, but there you go.

It was a long night for me and by the time I crashed, the hooter was going to wake the truckers up as we were approaching the Northern port of Igoumenista in Greece. That was at 4.45am.
I managed to get a couple of hours sleep as most of the truckers had left at the last port so the ferry was quiet at last and no Bizarro TV blasting away. So awoke at 9.30am to glorious weather and a mill pond sea. The views we saw of the Greek mountains were spectacular and continued all way until we got into port at Patras at 12.30pm.

I'd had doubts about doing this leg but the views and scenery we saw far outweighed any loss of sleep on my behalf. You could never get the views if you travelled by plane and so it's made us think that from Athens we're going to head into Turkey via Ferry. It'll be an 11 our ferry ride. For the meantime, we've got off in Patras and are waiting for the Bus to Athens. We were going to go by train but the word on the street is that there's so many strikes now, it's better not to rely on them running.

Here endeth the lesson...as they may have said at the end of the Pope Celebrity Special last night.