Thursday, May 18
No picture today, with good reason.
We found out last night that our flight from Catania to Athens, which we had nicely planned to fit between our tour and cruise, was cancelled due to a strike. Our amazing guide was able to get us a flight that would get us there in time for the cruise. But it flew out at 6 am today. So we were up late finding a hotel for an additional night in Athens and airport pickup as well as packing for air travel. Then in the morning we took a 3:00 AM taxi from Taormina to the Catania airport, flew to Rome and from there to Athens. We got only a couple hours of sleep, so here we are in Athens—lots to see—in a small, but expensive, hotel room flopped on the bed trying to recover. You don’t want a picture.