General Strikes in Athens

Today was the fifth of a series of one day general strikes protesting about the measures taken to deal with the Greek economy. So we decided to join in ourselves and have had our own strike staying at the hotel out of trouble! Saw protests on the television at the port with the police reportedly using tear gas on people arriving from the islands on the boats. What a warm welcome to Athens.

From our sunbeds on the rooftop could sometimes hear loud hailers from a few streets away but couldn't see anything going on even with the binoculars, (knew they would come in useful!). Mind you while we were having a huge lunch on the pavement just behind the hotel three or four large police buses with armoured windows etc went past. One way full of people the other way empty after going to the police station I guess! Mark is hoping the airport staff will come out in sympathy and we'll be stuck here for a little longer!