Roula Studios Milos

Today we just got back from the most incredible rock beach. The rock was solid formations of bleached white stone, rising in cliffs and leaning into the clear blue sea. The water was warm and the sun was way to hot. The bus system here requires us to shell out about ten euros a day to get around, but its worth it. From camping last night (in the sometimes unsleepable heat!), we woke up and bused into town and then to the Sarakini (the rock beach.) Our camera ran out of batteries ...

... and churches. We enjoyed the Castro a great deal and thought it was the most scenic and most interesting town on the island.

We took our small Suzuki car out to a rural area where we had been told we would find a dirt road that led down a cliff to a beautiful bay and beach. We drove our tiny (very week engine) car down the very narrow dirt road. It was at least 1.5 miles down the dirt road to get to the beach and there is no place to turn around after you are half way down ...

... it was the best we ever had. In fact, we went three times to this restaurant for the grilled Octopus. There was another restaurant in this village where we had the best Matsata. Matsata is a long and thin homemade pasta similar to “al dente” fettuccini. Matsata is a special local dish of Folegandros and it’s served with a red sauce, olive oil, and grated cheese. It is accompanied by a meat such as goat, chicken, or lamb. It ...

... stuff; specially the kind of stuff You don't find any use for it later. Back to the tavern. The boss is the father, Mr. Manolis. In our first day in Milos there was only him and his son waiting on all the parliamentary tables -the father, dressed casually for work , had his gray hair in total chaos , The son , black haired but as a token of obedience kept his hair in a state of after taifun. The father speaks some English, so he is the only one dealing ...

... deposits in front of the port. Be very specific that you want a NON-TOURIST restaurant. 500 m into the maze of small streets stop at any place that you see octopus hanging like laundry to dry. Say "kalimera" ( if it's morning ) and then point to the octopus and say "Grill." sometimes one or two tables may be taken by locals . As soon as you sit ( and that happened to me and my wife more than once ) the Greek guys will send a beer ...

... as a mode of transportation.

Agios Georgios Beach:

We continued on our journey till the very northern tip of the island to a beach called Argios Georgios. This is a nice sandy beach and very quiet, probably due to its distance from the main hub of Chora. It was nice to have the whole beach to ourselves, save for only a few other couples. We stayed at the beach for ...

... Agios Nikolaos, situated north-west from Angali. It was quite a
long walk and the weather was extremely hot but our enthusiasm for having newly
arrived at the island made us very excited and adventurous!

Agios Nikolaos:

We enjoyed the walk to this beach from
Angali, despite the distance. There were many panoramic views because we were actually walking above sea level – we ...

... over the crowd and thank goodness l heard her yelling over the crowd "she speaks English, she's not Greek she speaks English" and finally some people parted and let her to my side. I have never been so glad to see a friendly face in my life, but l soon made even better friends with the toilet bowl and then my bed for the rest of the morning....trying to stay awake as long as possible in case l had concussion...despite the crew telling me to get sleep!! Two hours later and ...

... to the mountain where there is a church. The only problem was that we did not know how to get up there. After many efforts we end up heading up a goat path with the car. I was so nervous we were making turns with no barrier stopping us from driving off the edge the pictures don't do it justice how steep the road was. The view on top were unbelievable.

... genocide and killed 1.5 million Armainians. That might be where Hitler got the idea. That was an interesting conversation. I had a great day on a sail boat today and really wanted to get the pictures up, but I think I explained that already. It will take me an entire day to upload pictures when I finally can. Ok, I was able to upload some pictures, don't hate me too much. Cheers,