Thessaloniki; Monday, 17 October, 2016

I had a bit of a lie-in and then headed down for a later breakfast. After breakfast I quickly packed and headed down to reception to checkout.

I could have walked the quarter mile or so to the train station to pick up the half-hourly local bus to the airport, but my experience of being so full on the way in and the cheapness of local taxi’s made up my mind to be lazy and I asked the hotel to order me a cab to the airport.

30 minutes and just €20 later, I found myself at the airport terminal in time to join the checkin queues. The airport didn’t appear to have much in the way of technology and online checkin wasn’t available so everyone was queued up at the checkin desks going through the manual process – I’d forgotten quite how painfully slow the whole process was, but eventually made it through into the tiny departures lounge with quite a bit of time to spare before my flight back to the UK.