All ashore on Mykonos......cool and cloudy at 0630.
Lots of expensive boats moored.....gorgeous white houses on the hills.
Well if that isn't the cutest town......and that was on a terrible day weatherwise (big thunderstorm)..... Imagine what it would look like on a sunny day.
I guess the all white washed buildings, such uniformity, stunning, with the odd splash of blue, red and sometimes green or yellow.
So many churches with red or blue domes, most of them family churches (Greek Orthodox) originally built to house the bones of loved ones.
(Exhumed after 3 years of burial). Fascinating!
On the Bucket List to come back for a weeks holiday and soak it up.
Friendly people, so clean and well looked after, cute cafes and restaurants.
Lots of friendly p**** cats and the biggest tame pelicans (3 of them) we have ever seen......they knock on the restaurant doors and wait for food. Gorgeous!
It has it's own 'Little Venice'.....shops are known as 'Little Paris'......carry lots of international brand names to target the rich who holiday here.
Housing very expensive, €750,000 - €1m for 130 sq ft.
Inhabitants evolved from pirates. 9000 permanent residents......swells to 40,000 during the summer.
2m tourists each year flock here.....we can see why. Cleanest port in the Aegean Sea......pristine water.
1400hrs.....setting sail to Istanbul via the Dardanelles.....site of the Gallipoli landings during WW1.
Relaxing afternoon.......off to the wine bar for sushi, tapas and wine......pre dinner.
Lovely dinner with Bernie our new friend (83) and a couple from USA once again a pushy yank female.......I don't get it, why are the american women so dominant??

Roger's added thoughts of the day.....

Mykonos is all they say it is.....beautiful.

In the 3rd centuary it was the biggest tax free port in the world.

Had a lovely lunch in one of the very cute cafes.

We got lost so after the storm downpour we just followed the running water back to the waterfront. No piped stormwater just channelled to the sea.