Minois Village (Studio Gv) Paros

... are still many columns as well as some interesting mosaics. Even with what remains, there is enough to get a good idea of what the island would have been like in its heyday. The best know sculptures on the island are a row of lions.

We anchored within the Bay of Delos and returned in the afternoon for lunch aboard. After we finished exploring the island, we boarded the yacht and returned to Mykonos for the evening. We went to shore and found a ...

It’s a little cool outside for a party island that is famous for its nude beaches and all-night dance clubs. This is the first time that I wished we were visiting Greece during the tourist season since the town almost feels empty and the beaches deserted.

This is ...

... meter's weren't running by the minute.

As is custom for us, we found a local bottleshop and purchased a local bottle of wine, with grapes grown in Greece.

We returned to the marina area and then made our way to the area of the island called "Little Venice". Here the most western part of the town meets the sea. Buildings are constructed right at the sea's edge with their balconies overhanging the ...

... at the beach we went to a great Greek restaurant right beside the beach where they were drying Octopus on a table right in the front of the restaurant and had a lovely dinner of Greek salad, Tzatziki and Chicken souvlaki (which was not on a skewer but was a quarter of a chicken) and some lovely wine which was 3 Euros for a half litre - Yeah!! After dinner I asked if there was a desert menu and the waiter looked at me weirdly and said no so I thought okay whatever but than he came ...

... and a very tasty carbonara for me. The weather however was getting gloomier and the blue domed churches didn't look as beautiful against a grey sky, so we headed back to the hotel to get in a siesta before dinner. When we awoke it really was hammering it down with rain, but unperturbed we set off to find dinner in Pariaka. Totally drenched we found the oldest Greek Restaurant in Paros, that oddly served some pretty good pizzas. After having a good meal and a ...

... Irish people. With Heather being on the end of the arm of an Irish man she was able to get in for free also. Being with me was really paying dividends for her ;0). To my surprise Heather is a fan of Guinness although she prefers it with a drop of blackcurrant in it. I was even more surprised to discover that the Irish bar didn't have Guinness but the Australian 'down under bar' did, strange. We got chatting to the barman over a few pints of Guinness and he was plying us with some free ...

... some time alone. She is so easy to talk to and as she spoke I would find myself hanging on her every word. She wants to be a writer, well she is a writer already but she has ambitions to get a book of short stories published. She already writes reviews of plays for her local paper and she often reviews travel blogs too. When she said she would love to have a look at my blog I got incredibly nervous. My poor spelling and bad punctuation have me embarrassed for someone ...

... iPod/soul)
2. Vodka+Fanta at the Sunrise (Scotty doesn't know)
3. Bungalow 40oz vodka+mix with Abby, Lindsay
4. Wine with Mikey and John outside Bungalow

Drinking games:
1. Ping Pang Pong (Aussies at Sunrise)
2. Sip of death (Scotty); adapted to be sip o' dat with straight liquor
3. Zoom Schwartz Profigliano Beaterman
4. Egyptian Rat Screw
-aka Mitt due to Bosh's ridiculously big hand

Scott Mason's nicknames ...

... an odd patch of fuzzy hair in the small of her back. I was trying not to look too closely, but was quite fascinated by this hairy woman.

Later on the bus stopped for lunch at Apollon Beach. I stripped down to my bikini, rinsed my clothes and bandana under a cold tap and lay them out to dry in the sun. As I lay back on my elbows, contemplating whether to take a dip, the cute guy emerged from the sea, water glistening in his chest hair. The sun ...

How on Earth did I get to be so lucky?

My family and I went on a cruise of the Greek Islands. We ate a lot, got sea sick once, soaked up the sun, and absorbed the classically beautiful white and blue colours on the islands. There weren't very much ship activities that my sister and I were interested in but Allyson and I did win a bingo game! Mykonos was by far our favorite island because of its beauty.