Mykonos Full Day 1

Pictures:(May not be in this order)

View of the buildings at Platys Gialos Beach

Streets of Mykonos town

The famous pelican

The beach chairs

Six famous windmills of Mykonos

Keith body surfacing

Lena's house

Keith's body surfing injury.....on his knee....even though it kind of looks like his butt!

Keith swinging his worry beads...he always like to be fiddling with something so this is the perfect souvenir!

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Well they say that Mykonos is a crazy party island but at this time of year that is definately not the case. The island is about to pack it in for the season until the partiers and sun seekers start arriving again in April.

It is very quiet here which has turned to be good for us as we went fairly hard core for the first 2 weeks. It is nice to relax and recover.

Yesterday we walked around the maze like narrow streets of Mykonos town during the afternoon. Many of the shops and restaurants were closed. We then found a restaurant to have supper....mousakka and grilled octopus. Grilled octopus tasted a lot like really chewy bbq chicken. It was actually pretty good.

We then started to head back to our hotel and to our surprise...all of the shops that were closed were now back open....I guess Mykonos comes alive in the evening. The streets were all lit up and the streets were busy with tourists from the cruise ships parked in the bay.

Keith made his first shopping purchase of the trip. He bought a set of komboloy...AKA Greek worry beads. They are a string of beads that we see many Greeks swinging and playing with in thier hands. They apparently have destressing powers according to the Greeks and the Catholic rosary beads originated from them. There is a really cool shop that sells them. The man in the shop finds different stones from all over the world to make the beads. Other shops sell them but they are made of plastic.

We also saw the famous six wind mill houses and one of the famous pelicans that hangs out in the port. We visited Lena's house. A traditional Mykonian house that was donated by a Greek lady named Lena as a museum when she died. The house is set just as she had it and as her parents had it before her.

The evening ended with Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible Three with Greek subtitles.

This morning we had breakfast and then just relaxed in our hotel room until about noon since there were some darker clouds in the sky and every once in while they would open up and spew rain. We then packed up and headed to a beach called Platys Gialos. Again....it was very quiet...only a few restaurants and mini markets open but we found some great beach loungers right in front of the sea. We read and swam in the waves free from sea urchins! Keith even did some body surfing. We came back to our hotel to enjoy a quick gyros pita and the sunset and later we are going to head into town for supper.

Tomorrow I think it will be another beach day.