Category: Greek Islands 2022
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Day 29: Soaking in the Warmth
We are in a neighbourhood of Athens we hadn’t explored on our first days in Greece. Not by design, simply because it was where we could find a hotel close to the center at a reasonable price. Thank you, Hotel Tonight registered trademark. We started the day at 📍Dope, a coffee shop that has awesome…
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Day 28: Driving around Kythnos
Kythnos, like most of the islands we’ve visited, has a large cat population. They are particularly trusting on Kythnos, however. They’ll, of course, swarm a table that gives food, like we’ve seen yesterday, with six cats next to us at the same time. But they’ll also happily jump on you and lie down for a…
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Day 27: Freezing on Kythnos
It’s getting darn cold here. We were not ready for 21°C and partly cloudy. We stretched our stay in our hotel to the maximum, leaving right at the 11:00 checkout. We found one of the many beach bars on the port and plopped down until a little before our ferry’s arrival. While technically on the…
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Day 26: Going for a loop
For our last full day on Sifnos, we went hiking again. The temperature is heading down over the next few days, making beach days over for us. Who would want to go in the water when the water temperature is higher than the air temperature? It’s fun going in, but terrible coming out. We started…
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Day 25: Around Mount Profitis Ilias
We got up in the early hours of the morning (9:15). I half expected the sun not to be up at that time. We hustled to grab breakfast and headed to Sifnos Laundry to grab our clean clothes. Per our translated instructions, they were just out of the washer but insisted on folding them and…
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Day 24: Sailing to Sifnos
Sifnos is a small island. Roughly seventy square kilometres, it has mountains, beaches, cliffs and green valleys. Something for everyone in a very small package. But it’s surprising that the island, like many others in the Cyclades, is fully booked in July and August. Sifnos has invested in hiking with a network of trails crisscrossing…
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Day 23: Driving to the Beach
Milos is known for its beautiful beaches all around the island. Milos is also very much not known for its public transit. Putting these two facts together led us to an inescapable conclusion that if we don’t want to swim in the port, we’ll need to rent personal transport. The two top-rated breakfast restaurants are…
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Day 22: Dropped Pin Beach
Public transport on small islands is underfunded. It makes sense that, given the small taxpayer base and the massive visitor influx during part of the year, setting up and funding a bus every fifteen minutes to popular island destinations would be challenging. Milos, for instance, operates a bus service every hour to some of its…
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Day 21: Sailing to Milos
All Greek islands claim to be the best. They all seem to have been the peak of civilization for the Greek Islands at some point in history or by some measure or another. Milos was the best of all the Cyclades during the Bronze Age. Being a volcanic island, it has a long history of…
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Day 20: Dangerous Driving
Vines in Santorini and the other Greek islands look like shrubs. Instead of having the vines grow on racks, they roll them onto themselves, forming a sort of donut with the fruits in the middle. It captures the moisture and protects the fruits from the high winds. It only dawned on us after visiting vineyards…
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