Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Day 61: Athens to Mykonos
July 26: Up at 5am, with little sleep overnight, to leave Athens and board our ferry to Mykonos. Very comfortable seats, so got a lot of sleep on our 6 hour journey. Huge ferry with over 1,000 people... takes cars too. Stopped at Syros and Tinos islands along the way.
Beautiful scenery. Very windy. Very hot. Lots of blue and white.
Coach transferred us to the Contiki Resort, which is unfortunately half an hour out of town and on the other side of the island. Beautiful beach, but a little frustrating as the resort doesn't offer much, other than lying by the pool or beach - and I did a lot of that already in Israel.
Still, making the most of it... and looking forward to heading into town during the day tomorrow.
(Resort is not as good as Great Keppel Island, which I visited in 2003.)
Dinner was very average at the hotel... but the town rocked! Went with the group for a short walk around Mykonos town, via some famous churches and pelicans - then onto Rhapsody for some drinks and Scandanavia Bar for a night full of dancing. Met up with some Maccabiah people tonight, and bumped into other Sydney people I knew too. Great seeing familiar faces.
Getting home was a nightmare - no taxi wants to drive to the other side of the island at 5am... so I discovered... made it in the end, but getting a lift with a moped guy was very tempting.
Beautiful scenery. Very windy. Very hot. Lots of blue and white.
Coach transferred us to the Contiki Resort, which is unfortunately half an hour out of town and on the other side of the island. Beautiful beach, but a little frustrating as the resort doesn't offer much, other than lying by the pool or beach - and I did a lot of that already in Israel.
Still, making the most of it... and looking forward to heading into town during the day tomorrow.
(Resort is not as good as Great Keppel Island, which I visited in 2003.)
Dinner was very average at the hotel... but the town rocked! Went with the group for a short walk around Mykonos town, via some famous churches and pelicans - then onto Rhapsody for some drinks and Scandanavia Bar for a night full of dancing. Met up with some Maccabiah people tonight, and bumped into other Sydney people I knew too. Great seeing familiar faces.
Getting home was a nightmare - no taxi wants to drive to the other side of the island at 5am... so I discovered... made it in the end, but getting a lift with a moped guy was very tempting.
# posted by mishij @ 5:26 AM 
