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bktheirregularSo today is thirty hours long for me. After four hours' sleep, I went nuts finishing my packing for New York, got delayed looking for two or three "last things", and caught the metro to the airport with two minutes to spare.
Side note: the metro station is directly downhill from me, and every half hour it runs right out to Eleftherios Venizelos Airport. Can you say convenient? Much more so than any options here in New York.
Where was I? Well, I was in Athens - security was easier there than it's been the past couple of times I passed through the Newark checkpoints. Less paranoia. (Then again, the Greek consulate in New York is practically like a townhouse; the American embassy in Athens is more like a cross between a medieval fortress, a slab-architecture bunker, and the Green Zone in Baghdad.)
Airplane actually left ahead of schedule, but headwinds all the way plus a big dog-leg across Central New Jersey to approach Newark Airport wiped out the time savings there. Got lucky again with my seat. Note to anyone who happens to fly Continental to Athens: if you can, grab a seat in row sixteen. Legroom and to spare.
Also, for some reason, it's more comfortable flying on a smaller airplane (a 767 as opposed to a 747 or Olympic's Airbus A340's). Why is that?
Side note: the metro station is directly downhill from me, and every half hour it runs right out to Eleftherios Venizelos Airport. Can you say convenient? Much more so than any options here in New York.
Where was I? Well, I was in Athens - security was easier there than it's been the past couple of times I passed through the Newark checkpoints. Less paranoia. (Then again, the Greek consulate in New York is practically like a townhouse; the American embassy in Athens is more like a cross between a medieval fortress, a slab-architecture bunker, and the Green Zone in Baghdad.)
Airplane actually left ahead of schedule, but headwinds all the way plus a big dog-leg across Central New Jersey to approach Newark Airport wiped out the time savings there. Got lucky again with my seat. Note to anyone who happens to fly Continental to Athens: if you can, grab a seat in row sixteen. Legroom and to spare.
Also, for some reason, it's more comfortable flying on a smaller airplane (a 767 as opposed to a 747 or Olympic's Airbus A340's). Why is that?
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Date: 2008-03-13 07:09 pm (UTC)Glad you got here safe. *hugs*