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A while back, Mary saw on the internet a guided butterfly holiday in the mountains of Southern Greece. While it was far more expensive than our usual package holiday deals, it would drive us to specific places to see a huge number of butterflies. I think Mary had hardly finished the sentence are you interested before I said I'm in. On paper it looked like my perfect holiday - being chauffeured about in a minibus to the best places in a sunny warm country to see exotic wildlife. With restaurant meals in the evenings serving traditional Greek cuisine. But would it really be as good as we imagined? Spoiler alert: it would!The price of the holiday did not include the flight to Athens. Mary also arranged this (while I renewed my passport) and it seemed the only flights direct from Edinburgh arrived the day before we were to meet the group in Arrivals at Athens airport. I asked Mary why she hadn't just booked us a room in a hotel near the airport. She had made a reservation in the centre of…