Aegina Island - Day 3
We liked Aegina Island so much that we decided to stay another night here on this lovely Greek island extending our stay to a third day!
Not hurrying to get back to Athens, we could be more relaxed in our schedule to fully enjoy the Greek island life!
We felt so relaxed here that we could have easily stay for anther week or so.
However, we still needed to deal wit our cash problem here. I checked my email hoping to receive a reply email from our Canadian bank. We requested them to send us some emergency fund last Thursday and hoped to get it from them by today. But we were hugely disappointed. Instead, I got a reply from my financial advisor informing me that I needed to call the 800 number to apply for another bank card and to follow a whole set of procedures. I was frustrated to no end!
We have money in the bank and the bank advisor knows me personally. She was aware of the difficult situation we were in Greece. However, she didn’t help us in any practical ways in order for us to be able to withdraw some of our money. Finally, I called my relative in Canada and requested her to send some money; she did it right away.
We received a message and the verification code from Western Union and we weret able to locate a branch on this island! We walked into the branch, presented the officer with the police report from the Athens' police station verifying that we were the people on the email message.
Bingo! Western Union released the fund to us without further delay! So happy we could retrieve money sent by our relative from Western Union in Aegina Island. This saved our trip and allowed us to enjoy the food and finer things in Greece!
Right after we recieved the money, we enjoyed a delicious seafood lunch by the ocean on the dock of this lovely island! It was an absolutely fantastic afternoon with a blue sky above, sunny weather and gentle ocean breezes blowing on our faces and money in our pockets so that we wouldn't feel poor again!
A shout out and a big THANK YOU to Western Union, Aegina branch, Greece!
RT, Aegina Island, Greece, 042026
Not hurrying to get back to Athens, we could be more relaxed in our schedule to fully enjoy the Greek island life!
We felt so relaxed here that we could have easily stay for anther week or so.
However, we still needed to deal wit our cash problem here. I checked my email hoping to receive a reply email from our Canadian bank. We requested them to send us some emergency fund last Thursday and hoped to get it from them by today. But we were hugely disappointed. Instead, I got a reply from my financial advisor informing me that I needed to call the 800 number to apply for another bank card and to follow a whole set of procedures. I was frustrated to no end!
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