Jamie – 3 July 2012

A short update today. It is 11am Athens time and the rest of the family are still asleep having all gone to bed at 7pm last night. That is what 30 hours on the plane does to you (Melbourne-Singapore-London-Athens). Yes there are more direct routes but not under our OneWorld “around-the-world” ticket! Impressively all FOUR* suitcases came off the conveyer-belt in Athens having been last sighted in Melbourne. I was pretty sure I was saying goodbye for the last time to at least one of them back in Melbourne. Good on you Qantas.

I woke up at 5am and settled in to watch a movie, read today’s edition of “The Age” and track Hawthorn getting thrashed by Collingwood in real-time. All on our iPad. Great thing technology. You just need to make sure that the online world doesn’t dominate the real world as you travel around amazing new countries.

We head off to one of the Ionian Islands later today (Zakynthos) and will probably be “off-line” for the next 10 days so there may not be an update for a while. We have a few hours to kill this afternoon so if the rest of my family wake up we may go looking for ancient civil riots and tear gas. Kidding Mum – we promise to stay in safe areas!

(* see previous blog posting.  We compromised.)