Who was the idiot who organised this trip?  A 6.20 flight from Gatwick.  You must be joking.  The alarms started at 2.10, we leave home at 2.35 and arrived at the JMC check in by 4.40.  Checked in, usual hassle with the paraglider, had to take over to the outsized luggage.  Nobody though weighed it.

Plane leaves at 6.20, despite some people  who turned up late for the flight and caused the luggage to be unloaded.  Arrive at Athens at 11.20.  Where was Selina's luggage, was it offloaded and never put back on by the loaders?  Hey the paraglider was there, so can't be to bad.  A few trembly lips when I commented that the only experience I had with lost luggage was you never got it back.

We took the JMC coach to the hotel Palace in Glyfidia, Selina not happy with the lost luggage.  The JMC rep assured us they would do all they could to get the luggage back to us before we departed on the trip the next day.  Hotel, OK, it was tourist class, air con, swimming pool, next to the sea, but not in Athens at all.  The brochure said Athens. The hotel did bring as a freebie of melon because they took pity on Selina with her missing luggage.

So out we went shopping, caught the bus down the road.  Never figured out how to pay for this.  I think we should have bought some tickets to put into some machine.  Spent the afternoon shopping for knickers and some replacement outfits for Selina.  The knickers were bought at a Marks and Spencer.  Quite expensive.  The tops and trousers were good value, and appeared to be old New Look stock.  Had lunch, and a few drinks.

Back at the hotel Rosemary was totally furious with the JMC rep.  No luggage, and even worse the rep knew nothing of our problems.  Communication break down.  R's most definite button to press.

For the evening dined at a Taverna near the hotel.  It was  totally deserted.  We had Kalamari (Me), Mousakka(Selina), and Chicken Souvlaki (Rosemary).  Not bad though.