An 89-year-old woman took a £2,000 taxi trip to Greece - because she can't stand waiting in airports.
Kathleen Searles is fascinated with history and Alexander the Great.
So, to visit Mieza, where he went to school, she ordered a cab to take her on the three-day journey through France,
Germany and the Balkans.
She made the 3,000-mile round trip from her home near Sudbury in Suffolk after persuading friend Wendy Turner, 73
, to join her and share the taxi fare.
The fare was £2,000 but with food and accommodation the cost was £5,000 when a plane trip would have been £130.
For Mrs Searles it was the trip of a lifetime as she had wanted to see where Alexander had learnt the things that had
made him "great" - even though she only spent four hours there.
