It is great to be in Mykonos and to be here for 3 nights. A chance to recharge the batteries. We've been getting up earlier than if we were going to work!!! 6.00am Monday to get to Istanbul airport to fly to Athens, 5.45am today (Tuesday) for our pick up to get us to the ferry to here. And are we lucky to be here, CRAZY Turkish and Greek drivers. Have suffered 2 Greek drivers today on both the port runs. Mykonos has narrow streets and lots of traffic with young ones on scooters (no helmets) and seemingly no road rules. Pete and I have mastered yet another Metro, In Athens yesterday we got ourselves from our hotel to the Acropolis and back on the underground Metro - you would have been proud of us Michelle. Acropolis was awesome (and damn hot- went through bottles of water) it's one of those landmarks that makes you think "yes I'm here"- like the Eiffel Tower in France, the Leaning Tower of Pisa etc. Unfortunately yesterday was Santa Maria something or rather day so holiday and everything was closed (read SHOPS) but the Acropolis was free for the day - Bonus. We didn't get to our hotel until around 1.30pm so only got to see Acropolis. Had drinks and tea at rooftop bar of hotel which had a view of Acropolis. Surreal when it was lit up later on.
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| The Acropolis |
Mykonos is beautiful, we are just a little way from town and a short walk to a swimming beach. We caught the bus to town today which took about 10 minutes. We're getting very good at this public transport.
Still have to buy water as not drinkable from taps in Greece either. It would have been an interesting exercise to keep track of the costs of water in and water out!! Although in this heat not a lot is getting completely through the system if you get my drift!
Above entries were taken from emails sent at the time. We spent our three days wandering the narrow streets through the town centre in search of famous landmarks and walking the coastline to different bays. It had been our intention to get a boat to Paradise and Super Paradise Beach but when we realised that on our walk the previous morning we had only been one bay away from Paradise Beach we decided to walk to it the next day. Every night there would be super yachts anchored out in the Bays.
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| Windmills on Mykonos |
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| This part of Mykonos is known as Little Venice |
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| Looking back at Swimming Beach close to our Hotel |
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| These little churches dotted all over Mykonos |
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