Photo: Bit short on subjects today - too much travel.
Day 45: Athens to mid
air over the middle east (on the way to Bangkok)
Our 5pm ferry from Santorini, which was rescheduled to 8pm
finally turned up at 9.30pm, which meant we didn’t get back to Piraeus port in
Athens till about 1.30am and back to the hotel in Athens just before 2am.
Lucklily our pickup at the port was there to meet us and the hotel reception was
still open when we arrived. The taxi trip was interesting – or should I say
fast. I don’t think the kids have ever been in a car doing 140km/h.
After a bit of a sleep in we did some final shopping in
Athens before heading to the airport. The taxi driver was great, telling us a
lot about the troubles in Greece, working conditions and some of the things the
government is trying to do. He told us that the reason behind the recent taxi
strikes is that the government wants to deregulate the taxi industry, making it
legal for anybody to take paying passengers and meaning the fees the taxi
licence drivers have paid a fortune for would be worthless. In the public
sector, the government is trying to cut 300,000 jobs. I can see why the locals
are angry.
The next few hours is flying, waiting, flying – arriving in
Bangkok tomorrow afternoon. Not much chance for any photos today, so I’m not
sure what the photo-a-day will end up being. I’ll find something interesting I
hope.
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