Travel Day

We knew when we designed our trip that the travel days would be the most difficult. They always are difficult but this trip would be more challenging than usual because of the elements we can't control and a few we decided to take on.

Our flight to Greece was in two legs: 10 hours to Paris Charles de Gaulle airport and a 10 hour lay-over; and a 4 hour flight to Greece. We would live that day basically twice. We would spend 10 hours in the air and when we land, we will go to Paris on the train and spend 9 hours, that we would normally be sleeping, looking around. We'll get back on a plane, land in Greece at 12 midnight, and take a 1 hour bus ride in to Athens so we can stay in a cheaper hotel. The only hotel near the airport is $280 a night, which is too steep for us. We only need one night because we will hop on a ferry, bound for an island, first thing in the morning.

We thought, and we were correct, that both France and Greece had a strike the day before so we knew we would be safe to travel.