The trip · Athens

Back to Athens

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Transfer at noon, in the air by ten to two, on the ground in Athens at half past two. The shortest travel day of the trip, and the largest change of scale.

The way in from the airport is the one you already know — Metro, or the taxi rank at Exit 3. If the flight runs on time the evening engineering work on Line 3 is not your problem this time, and you should reach the city with daylight to spare. The sun goes down around a quarter past seven.

Tonight you are at Monis Asteriou 12, in Plaka. How you get into it comes from the host nearer the date — settle it before you land rather than in Arrivals, and ask if it has not come.