"Jeremy" wrote in message
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If you are flying back home from Athens, then try and aim to arrive
back in Athens at least 24 hours before your flight home, and try and
keep the last 'hop' to Athens relatively straightforward.

That's a good piece of advice if you want to be sure of not being affected
by one of the strikes that not uncommonly delay sailings. Another tactic
is
to make your last hop accessible to Athens by both ferry and some other
mode
of transport ("Flying Dolphin" etc)

Agree - and if you do get back to Piraeus a day early and don't fancy the
mainland there are frequent dolphins to nearby Aegena, which is at least an
island, if not the most beautiful one!

Tony