Marc's Blog: greece2024 - Two Days in To Visit Mikonos and Delos

π 2024-05-04 01:01 in Greece2024, Ntrips

Mykonos was the first island on the trip. Taking the "fast" ferries is supposed to be part of the experience, but while they are fast for boats (up to 65kph or so), it's still 15 times slower than a plane and the boats cannot take the most direct route. Sadly those greek ferries are also chronically late because of bad schedules, and while this was the first ferry of the day, it still arrived about 1H late for no good reason, preventing taking the morning boat to Delos :-/ In hindsight, taking a plane would have probably been better and barely more expensive (those boats are not cheap).

not bad for a boat, but not fast compared to a plane.

The first stop was another island, further delaying the already late arrival:

finally, 1H late....

After arriving, picked up a higher power quad (thankfully, the cheaper lower power ones would have been totally useless on that hilly island):

A few museums to visit:

wonderful old mosaics left over

Mykonos has lots of friendly cats:

And of course Mykonos is well known for its pretty painted houses and churches, as well as windmills:

The old town was fun to walk through, lots of small streets:

Then, due to timing not lining up, time to burn before the late boat to Delos:

absolutely overpriced dessert, not bad, but sold for 27 times its price of 1E

Eventually it was time for the late boat to Delos with a good guide who actually used to be part of the team working on the escavations (clickme):

After the tour, went back to the very nice hotel for the night:

The 2nd day was a toss, either take an early-ish ferry around noon, or go around the island. In hindsight, going around the island wasn't that interesting and the noon-ish boat was probably 1H late anyway, so it would have been possible to go around for a while and then take the boat to Santorini. Taking the later boat to Santorini was a mistake, itwas very late and got there past midnight.