Barcelona and Greece 2014: Tuesday

 
Another early start this morning (after getting to bed around 1am). We checked out of the hotel, drove literally up the road to the long stay car park and took the bus to the terminal.

We had to check in a bag (with all of our wedding clothes etc) so we got in the ridiculous Ryanair bag drop line. Our bag weighed in at exactly 15kg which was pretty amazing :)

We headed through security and then got a sandwich and cookie for breakfast. Then we were off to the gate to board the plane :) 

We were quite tired so we slept for most of the 3 hour flight to Thessaloniki!  

The flight was on time and we got our bag quickly went through passport control and headed to the car hire desk. We got our bumper car (it was a Toyota Auris which had been well used)! 

We headed off towards Larissa – around a 2 hour drive and the roads were pretty quiet once we got out of Thessaloniki. We had to stop every now and then to pay the tolls :(

We arrived at the hotel at around 7pm checked in dropped bags and headed to dinner. 

We had a half board option and we had 2 options for each course – the salad was tomato and cucumber or green – here are some pictures....




To be fair the salads were actually quite good – but they were very odd! We were also the only people in the restaurant at this point!



We both had chicken for our main course and then for dessert we each had some Greek sweeties (cake) – I can’t remember what they were exactly but they were very nice :)



We then popped to the bar for Rob to get a beer and I had a cappuccino. Then we were getting tired so were off to bed.

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