Last day, and not really a day at all, as we leave after breakfast for the airport. Time for a last shower, though. Temperature and water pressure MUCH better than at "home" in Cyprus. Metro from Ommonia. We pick up a koulouri each from the cart on the square for the airport. They're chewier and more sesame tasting than those in Cyprus, but like baguettes best early in the day and almost inedible by the next day. At the airport the wifi is as I remember it from last time - free but too slow to even connect. Really serves only as a suggestion that one might wish to purchase the premium service. Which one doesn't.
Plane fairly full, but we're near the back and have three seats for the two of us. Opposite us several members of a band or orchestra, all loud young male enthusiasm, so that J at first takes them for a sports team. As well we're not hungry. Lunch consists of a serving of orzo (with cheese J says, but little enough that I have to take his word for it) and a white bread roll. Followed by a pretty severe sugarless gluten free cocoa and fig bar. J leaves his. I eat mine but consider eating his as well would be adding insult to injury. See little point in any case in going gluten free on the bar, given the orzo and the bread roll. Resolve, out of curiosity, to see if the Geneva Convention has anything to say about protein. J points out that football player musicians opposite eat two portions of orzo each.
Buses running again, as Jane has messaged, so sunny ride in. And bus again out to Vlachos to meet Jane, Bill, Maureen and Iris. Usual excellent meze spread and full enough that half the chicken skewers come home with us to be turned into chicken salad for sandwiches.
We've missed a major demonstration in Athens, which may have been setting up above our heads at Syntagma Square outside the parliament buildings. Farmers have set up protest camps, tyres have been burned. The press reports that one police unit was forced to flee up a street pursued by farmers with crooks and pieces of wood.
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