Woke up to thundering clouds. No rain or lightning. Just thunder. Apparently 1 of those 60 days happened to be 1 of the 8 days we’d be in Greece. Chilly today, even though high of 21 low of 15.
As we were waiting for our ride to the airport from the villa owners, very generous people at Villa Rose, started to drizzle :(… But barely. Still very windy and chilly though.
Quickly got to the port and quickly browsed the few souvenir shops down there to no avail. Just sat in the terminal and waited for our ‘flyingcat 4’ hellanic seaway ride to mykonos.
During the ride, the rain came down between islands and never touched our heads :), arrived at the mykonos port at about 3pm, still enough ‘sunlight’ to explore the central area, but not enough to venture to the beaches. Staying at Hotel Aeolos, we got a ride to the hotel and a ride to the airport tomorrow as we depart for Athens. Very nice owner, a bit ‘used car salesman’-like, but nice nonetheless.
Mykonos usually known for its party/nightlife, is apparently in its down season, and we don’t party that much anyways 😛
After settling in, we head down to the central area via side streets, only 800m from the hotel, 10 minutes! Whooo… *cough.
Once we got down to the central area, the buildings resembled… ‘Ice cream… Cubes’ rounded corners, so white, with usually blue doors/windows. The streets weren’t very well lit though… Compared to other cities, this one had more cats instead of stray dogs. (Dogs in Ia). Walking among them was pretty interesting, although there did seem to be a bunch of buildings in the middle of the city either damaged or just plain abandoned. A lot of souvenir shops, and random imported stuff like Superdry. But also a lot of handcrafted stuff, and artists, very nice (and expensive) pieces.
We found a nice restaurant to eat at, Niko’s Tavern. And the sun came back out so Mike and Karen went out to get some shots and were visited by the local Pelican! I believe his name is Peitrou. Or something. They got some nice shots and Michelle and I went out to get some shots of it too. Note to self: new york dessert, chicletts (or something) recommended by karen’s awesome reenactment.
After getting some food in our tummies we went off to explore, shop, take a lot of pictures, get some snacks, and more.
Melon ice cream. Mmmmmmm….
Off to the sunset by the water. Found the windmills and we were disappointed with the lack of sun in the sunset, so cloudy 🙁
Headed back for an early night to write blogs, review photos, etc. Hoping for a nicer and brighter day tomorrow.
Peitrou the Pelican
Windmill at Mykonos
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