Day 128 – Greece to Gatwick, England
May 30th, 2007My measly 3 hours sleep was not enough as I whipped out of bed to cacth the 0400am bus to Athens Airport. Again, chaos reigned as the people in the back tried to climb over luggage to buy tickets and the people in the front climbed rearward to validate their tickets at the only machine in the back. Erg, to think they run this service every single morning like this and another 23 times a day, silly. I knew the flight was not going to be pretty when I saw all the overly hung over liverpool football club fans passed out in the waiting area ready to go home. As luck would have it a young mucker, still drunk was seated right next to me with 4 of his buddies. I knew al too well what the end of this would be but it was a full flight.
They served breakfast about 1 hour into the flight. the airplane food smell must have woke my partner next to me up and it was not long before he was regurgitating last nights fastivites. Fantastic sitting next to someone getting sick for the next 2 hours. I could not do much but hand him water and sick bags and wet wipes. I thought he was going to cry saying I was just like his mom taking care of him and I decided to bite my toungue telling him he has no business getting on a plane in the state he did. Such is life. That is my good deed for the month. In 3 hours I was in Gatwaick and got to wait 1.5 hours in the immigration line. That was fun. it was Saturday and they do not have enough staff working we were told erg…
I jumped a train to Reading, changed for Coventry and got off at Leamington Spa. A good friend of mine from Brasil, Carolina came and met me at the station. Her mum and dad were just leaving back to Brasil and I got to catch up with them. Carolina and Francisco have a lovely little one year old now, Lucas, who is a bundle of energy.