Friday, October 3, 2008

Back to the homeland.

My final day on Santorini was nice and super relaxing.. ate breakfast by the pool, met two nice couples just arriving at the hotel who were from Vancouver, put my feet in the Mediterranean, got packed up and Stelio the hotel owner took me to the airport.

Stelio and his wife Eva were absolutely lovely and I will most certainly be back to stay at their hotel.

One of the ladies from the bunch that I met from Vancouver reminded me to call my mother often and be safe.. obviously she's a mom, LOL.

No dramas on the flight, security at the itsy-bitsy Santorini airport doesn't exist, a lady was seeing some friends off, they had gone through security and she hadn't. She asked the sole security guy if she could go through and wait with them, he said no problem, for a little while. She didn't go through the metal detector or anything. LOL.

The Greek islands were just wonderful and I can't wait to get back there.

My friend David met me at Stansted airport in London. Major shock to the system as I stepped outside, it was bloody cold!! Yay October. haha

David is a friend that I met in Victoria about 10 years ago, but haven't seen since I moved to Vancouver in 1999. He's an English fellow, lived in Canada for a long time, and decided to move back to the UK. Very nice to see him again :) He lives in Southsea, near Portsmouth (a part of Portsmouth really), on the south coast of England. Was about a 3 hour drive from the airport.

We stopped along the way for a nibble and something to drink... arrived about 1130pm, had tea and a chat, and after a shower dropped into bed...

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