Today was an early rising morning. We had to get to the Athens airport via the metro, which we had to catch at 7 am.
Carrie and Annelle went to the terminal the night before and purchased our three person ticket for the trip. The only thing we didn't do was get a metro map. This came into play the next morning as we boarded the metro for the airport but were unaware of the need to switch trains. We asked some locals for assistance and they assured us that they would tell us when to get off the train and when to board the next one. They followed through on that promise and we arrived at the airport without incident.
We had planned the perfect amount of time to get through security, find our airline and board the bus that took us to our plane. We got lucky and the one empty seat on the plane was across the aisle from Carrie and Annelle. I switched seats and enjoyed their company on the hour long flight.
We met up with our car rental agent and picked up one of our rentals and drove straight to our rental house with the assistance of great directions from Elias, our host. He met just the house and spent the next 2.5 hours with us telling us all about everything there is to see and do on Rhodes. After showing us the house and perusing the map he jumped on his scooter and we got in our car and we followed him on a tour of the village around our house. He showed us a restaurant he recommends, where the town square, a grocery store, and finally a " local artisans" store. It is a fresh market that sells local produce, local pine honey, homemade Raki and Suma, olives, cheeses and homemade wines. He chatted with the shop owners while handing out samples of the cheeses, wines, Raki and Suma. We purchased farm fresh eggs, fresh veggies, olives and water to get us through breakfast once the rest of our group arrived.
Once back at Grandma's house ( the name of our traditional Greek stone house) we enjoyed a lazy afternoon, catching up on some rest after three weeks of full speed ahead.
Following dinner Carrie and I went in search of the grocery store to pick up a few necessities such as paper products and more water, along with coffee for the java drinking crowd that would arrive in an hour's time.
Off to the airport we went and waited on the other side of the glass doors as the ladies waited for their luggage. Kalispera!!!!! Welcome to Greece!!! Hugs of greeting and we took care of the paperwork on the car, divided up riders into cars and we were off to Grandmas.
We had a good ole' girl gabfest until the new arrivals started falling asleep where they sat. Eight females, two available showers.... We made it work and then we were off to dreamland.
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