Day 192
I sit in Athens airport with only five and a half hours until our flight home. Hopefully all will be well and we will land at Heathrow as planned.
It would be easy to write yet again about the two blond idiots but I am going to refrain. As I sit here waiting to return to England I am filled with dread of returning to our divided, miserable, self-interested, uncaring country. It is a place I have come to dislike more and more. Not the actual geography, not it’s scenery but mostly the people and their disconnected apathy and selfishness. Naturally there are exceptions, not everyone is terrible and many are kind and caring but the prevailing attitude of the British, especially since Brexit is one of displaced acceptance of a country that far from being prosperous is falling apart by the day.
When compared to Crete and the Greeks it brings into sharp relief how tattered our culture is. They have and are experiencing hardships many British could not cope with and through it all they remain deeply connected to their families and each other! This sense of community is lost in the U.K. I am just as much to blame as everyone else.
I understand the irony of writing this sat in an airport having had a wonderful relaxing vacation but I am not looking forward to going back.
Stay well
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