Ready to go (part 1)These reports may seem as if they were written all in one go but they are being written up, saved on the computer and kept in storage for some place in Greece which has had the brilliant idea of easily accessible internet. (which happens to be the hotel where we are at now somewhere near Athens)
So we flew to Corfu early this morning after spending the evening playing cards, drinking beer, annoying innocent passengers and being annoyed by hopeless bar staff (and one weird Dutchwoman who kept trying to scam beers off us).
Let's hope Jonathan is a better cricket captain than he is a cards playerCorfu seemed lovely, only hassle was that we didn't land. According to Colin, the pilot made two attempts to land and on the second one he could clearly see the runway. He bottled it though and so flew back to Athens and to the baggage collection area where this post is being written.
Hanging around at Athens Airport having got "this close" to Corfu
Mubashir takes a nap
... as does ImranAfter a couple of hours of buggering around Olympic Airlines put us into a bus and got us into a hotel where we will be sleeping for the next few hours before heading off yet again for Corfu.
Hopefully, this time we will actually land.
as i type - over my morning coffee on alessandros ave in downtown corfu - the heavens have opened and it's bucketing down. i told my cricketing pal, 'you wait, it'll save the wettest for nearer the match'.
ReplyDeleteulp. sorry to hear of the hassle of the non-landing. i've sometimes also wondered why passengers this end can't be alerted in advance when fog prevents planes taking *off* from athens - hours in time to let us know - but no, we have to arrive to be told that the planes havent and wont take off.
i covered the match between House of Lords team and local gymnastiko so i was hoping to spill some ink on your tourney. fingers crossed.