Aaah the joys of air travel.

We have been pretty lucky with our air travel over the years, with very little hassle or problems. But coming to Greece our luck finally ran out. Having crawled our way though security at Manchester airport we were called to the information desk in the departure lounge. Swiss Air was running late and would not be able to make our connecting flight from Zurich to Thessalonica. So we had to go back through passport control and customs to the check in desks to get re-booked on to another flight. But as it turned out there were no spare seats that would help us on any flights with any airline. So we crawled back through security and just made our original flight. At Zurich we had missed every flight going out and by the time we had organised a new flight for the morning and a hotel for the night the passport control folk had gone home too. Still we made it out and then jumped on a bus for the hotel. There were about a dozen people in the same position as us. Now the Swiss are known for the precision so after the late plane issues we thought that the hotel would be well organised, alas that was not to be. We were driven 50km to a small village because all the hotels in Zurich were full (the cheap ones anyway). We finally made our bed at about 0130 for a quick kip before our 0530 pick up and return to the airport, which was late and we only just made to the airport for our flight. So I can definitely recommend Swiss Air for its organisation..... Not. The new flight included a stop over in Vienna for a few hours, so all in all a quick, short hop across Europe took longer than some journeys from NZ to the UK!!!! Other than all that we are safe and sound in cousin Joe's place in Alexandropolis, Greece.