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Hey all,

Sorry I couldn't post earlier but travelling has been extremely involved up until now. The flight from Sydney to Bangkok took about eight hours. I watched three movies and couldn't sleep at all. Alice was very good and didn't cry any more than usual. Bek made sure to breastfeed her during take off and landing so her ears popped and she didn't feel the pressure changes too much.

We didn't even get off the plane in Bangkok, but we did in Dubai, which was another six hours flight. The last leg was also about six hours and we arrived at about 2.30 in the afternoon. So I didn't really sleep for a whole day.

When we got in we took a bus to the Syntagma Square which is in the centre of Athens. We were meant to find a free shuttle bus to the hotel but it didn't seem to be anywhere to be found. We walked past the taxi rank, and some of the drivers tried to tout us, but we politely said no. Of course they still said something rude in Greek to me as I passed them. Greek taxi drivers are not meant to be very nice. It's easy to get lost in the narrow, labyrinthine back alleys. The roads all seem to criss cross and are often blocked or become dead ends.

Anyway, we finally got in and slept until the next day. We met up with Bek's relatives from America the next day. They told us that they weren't allowed to carry anything on to the plane at Heathrow except their passports and tickets. So they had to put all the rest of their carry on luggage into a flimsy plastic bag and put it in the luggage hold. Of course when they got here their bag was missing. Today they got it back, well the part that was still in one end of the now ripped plastic. They lost their glasses, their maps and guide books and some other things .

Yasas.