Hola! Were back in Athens

Before I go on, I need to explain something. One of our missions on this trip was to avoid Athens because some inconsiderate person doesn't like Athens. Hence the reason why we decided to travel on our own rather than join a tour. All the tours depart from Athens and we would have to at least spend a night in Athens.

To cut a long argument short, we soon realised we had to fly to Athens to get to Santorini from Rhodes as there was no direct ferries. Hence we failed the mission to escape Athens. Funny enough we had to fly to Athens twice just to avoid it. The second time is later in the trip when we leave Mykonos. I'll eventually get there.

After a short trip to Athens on the plane, majority of the passangers were concerned they would miss their connecting flight. We were in the same situation. Because we left Rhodes late, we arrived in Athens late. For some reason this always happens in Greece. So our planes about to land when the old guy sitting near the window prepares himself. As soon as the plane lands this guy jumps up and throws his massive body onto us, stepping on our feet to climb over us before the plane comes to a complete stop.

With a bit of commotion Nagasaki slams him back down with the gym bag and we storm off the plane. It's another mad marathon race to the connecting flight gate where security stops me again due to the asthma machine.

Finally I pass through the security check and reach Nagasaki who is waiting in front of a counter for some assistance. No one is behind the counter and we spend 5 minutes arguing over where we are supposed to line up. Next thing we know, we see a huge crowd standing behind us in a line. It seems they thought we were the head of the line. We somehow started a queue without realising what was going on. Boarding time comes and the two people behind us push their way through to the front. We manage to bitch about them and they decide to back off realising we can get nasty.

We walk out to catch a bus to our plane again. We arrive outside some tiny plane where I have a stress attack on the size. YES SIZE MATTERS. Its all a flashback to me now of our plane trip from Mykonos to Athens in 2004 when it was a similar plane and I didnt want to go on it.

We enter this plane and each side of the plane only has 2 seats to it. We stroll down and I notice that the storage space above our seats are filled so I put my hand luggage a few seats down and manage to take up all the room.

Were sitting there and I'm about to faint from lack of air on this tiny plane. Yes I have tiny plane in my head. Thank god the following happens to take my mind off things.

This woman enters the plane carrying a hand luggage. She opens up the storage compartment above her seat only to see my luggage tightly in there. She slams it shut and turns around to check if the storage compartment across her is empty. To her luck its empty so she proceeds to lift her hand luggage into the storage compartment when she somehow looses grip and drops the suitcase right smack bang onto some womans head whos sitting in her seat.

The woman quickly grabs her luggage and shoves it on the ground while trying to rub the woman's head who just got smacked on the head. Now the woman sitting in her seat that got smacked has huge afro hair. So all we see is this woman shoving her hand in there and losing it.

Due to her panic she accidently pushes the woman by the hair into the seat in front almost causing a second hit. For a minute it was like a DJ spinning his records. It was at this point that I nearly burst out laughing. It was like someone had hit my funny bone. I wasnt expecting to laugh but I was about to start and I couldnt stop. The problem - were in a tiny plane and any laughter would cause a huge scene. And you know what it only takes one of us to laugh in order to encourage the other. So were both sitting there shaking so badly trying not to laugh. This is when Nagasaki slams the face against the window to avoid laughing.

I think it took us half the plane trip to settle. By that time we had landed. As you can see the laughing fits are getting worst and worst.

WELCOME TO SANTORINI........