Back in Greece

Monday 20 June

At 2:00am I received a text telling us that our flight was delayed by an hour.  Unfortunately we had a pre-arranged transfer booked so at 3:00am we were on the way to Tel Aviv airport.  In a way it was to our advantage as it took us an hour to get through security before we could get to passport control.

We asked at the checkin for a wheelchair for Gillian on arrival at Athens on the advice of our tour tour guide.  While it saved Gillian's knees and chest and sped us through immigration and customs, we had a long wait for our luggage.  Anway it arrived at last and we grabbed our rental car and headed for Corinth.The motorway tunnels we had seen in construction in 2005, the last time we had been here, are now complete and the toll route is a model of a modern 6 lane motorway.  However, when we left the motorway the roads looked so familiar with dusty roads that narrow unexpectly, hidden corners, no footpaths and piles of rubbish spilling onto them.  The road to our accommodation had cars parked both sides and with heavy traffic in the area due to a public holiday being forced to dodge into any available space and push into vegetation to avoid oncoming traffic my concentration was on the road so we drove past the accommodation without seeing it.  Turning round we corrected this and arrived to find an oasis in a crazy scene.  The Enalio Suites more than matched its reputation with a warm welcome and upgraded us from a lovely studio unit to a 2 level suite.  The units are built in warm stone and the top rooms look out over the pool to the Gulf of Corinth.  The place is spotless, the pool is just great and the outdoor dining area serves a superb breakfast.  There seem to be at least 4 staff on duty at all times, which is surprising for a facility with only 14 rooms, but we're not complaining.

The area here at Lechaio Beach is not a touristy area, rather a holiday area for the Athenians with a mixture of old scruffy flat roof baches, empty overgrown sections, ornate 2 storey nouses and small apartment blocks.  Once the holiday weekend was over the crowd thinned and most houses are shut up and the beach is almost deserted. While the beach does not measure up to Onemana, it is pleasant enough with a mixture of sand and shingle and warm water. In short it has a very comfortable feel for us and we are relaxed here.