Joan and I took off from Hammersmith on a Saturday morning at the horrible hour of 8am by tube to Victoria Coach Station, where we had no problems getting on the non-stop (ugh!) London to Athens bus run by Pimlico Travel (GBP21.50 each for the entire trip). The bus left at 9.15am and was due in Athens late on Monday, a three-day trip. We reached Dover by midday, with an unnecessary stop-off of 3 hours before picking up a hovercraft over the Channel. French customs were no hassle, but there was a big blow-up by the bus driver over an American gal with a giant cello, which delayed our departure from Calais until around 4.30pm. Rain started to fall, and we had light rain all the way through the night. We crossed the Belgian border at
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