So ridiculously early start this morning but definitely well worth it for the excursion. We had a cruise to ydra poros and agina. Ydra was beautiful open harbour lots of little gift and souvenir shops with many handmade crafts. Off some if the alleys were a few hidden gems. Then a walk up the hill took us to a bar with steps down to the sea, for a dip and towels provided by the bar. I could have spent all day here. But return to the ferry we did and had a lovely ...

Last night, The Athens Lotus Hotel is lovely and our first accomodation of our trip and yes McCarthys, we found a lovely tapas bar called Taberna Ta Bapena cross the street who served cheap beer n reasonably priced food. Michael was happy but we managed to drag him to the hotel as we had an early start.Today, After almost oversleeping as someone's alarm never went off, we were up at 7 am n down for breakfast. We then had to find our excursion pickup point as I ha...