Machi'S House Milos

... we managed to get a shot of me jumping off ten+ meter cliffs into the ocean. Mirna conquered her fear of heights and jumped of a very large rock, without screaming. We then just lay around in the sun, and fell deeper in love with Milos. Besides the heavenly water, and sparkling beaches there is, how shall i put it, cheese. Yesterday we ate the best grilled and spicy goats cheese. And for a couple cursed with lactose intolerance we can proudly say it was worth it.

-Aaron

... 8217;s engine was too weak and died. So, we rolled down the hill backwards in order to start again.

Some people came up to us and told us we would need to back up as far as possible and hit the hill with a running start and with as much power as we could get. So, we backed up about 150 feet for a running start and tried again. This time we made it half way up the steep part (about 1,500 feet of road) and the engine gave out again because it was just too weak to avoid ...

... we were concerned that we must not have used correct Greek when ordering and we wanted to correct our error. So, to help us correct our apparent mistake we said, “What do you call two glasses of red wine?” He replied in English, “I say two glasses of red wine”. We explained that we understood how to say it in English, but we wanted to know how to say it correctly in Greek.. He gave us a very clear and enlightening ...

... the car at the parking lot some 50 m from the Village. I pushed to go with the road further in hope that we will find a parking place just by the sea. She obliged me. Only to find out that the small road was taking us into the sea. we could park among the fishes. As usual my wife was right. I remained near the shore and she went to park the car on the civilized parking lot. The floor was covered by sea weeds. As I walked I had the feeling of walking ...

... below the land/road level and we had to climb down a very, very steep slope in order to reach it.

I enjoyed the whole adventure so much but was a little disappointed when I saw so many people at the beach! Many of them had taken a boat to reach there, which is a much easier route. Nevertheless, we stayed on for a while to catch our breath before starting a more challenging ...

... would have put on more appropriate footwear. At the end of our journey, my poor beautiful beaded slippers I bought from Bali
were totally destroyed!


From Vorina Bay to Chora (Hora):

We stayed for quite some time on this beach as we were rather tired from all the climbing. Climbing upwards to the road level was harder than going down. By the time we reached the road, it was already early ...

... they move on without putting anything back into to land to help it recover, so the island is covered in mining remnants. On one hand the mines would create jobs for the locals but on the other it will destroy the tourism eventually. The great thing about Milos as I said before are the beaches, they are all very very beautiful and very different to one another. We tried to visit every beach ...

After an 8-hour ferry ride from Athens we arrived in Milos. From what we had been told, there was no need to worry about booking accommodations before we landed in any of the islands, so we didn't. As a result we sort of believed that the local hotels and rooms for rent would be awaiting our arrival and ready to battle each other for our meager euro/night sum. This was not the case so, both secretly a little nervous, Desma hustled into a ...

Today we decided to rent a car! It is so easy to rent thing abroad, we gave them our expired driver license and they thought nothing of it.haha. We did some off roading down some really hairy dirt paths that went right along the cliffs right down to the ocean, had the best time just driving around and exploring. So then decided that we want to drive ...

Hello from Melissa! We have all arrived safely in Milos. Our day began hustling to pack all our items neatly back up in 6 backpacks and 2 rolling suitcases. The metro station was but a block away so 8 girls loaded themselves up with there luggage and purchased their 80 cent (euro) metro ticket to the ferry port. The Metro is very clean and fast, as we think it was redone for the latest Olympics in Greece. The ferry ...