Greece - Day 2, Part I

Oh man, this took so long to load. I miss MIT. Anyhow, Day 2. We woke up at around 6am, ate breakfast at the hotel, and our driver took us to the port. Our travel agency arranged all the transfers so that we got picked up and such.

The port is amazing. I've never seen a port that's so alive. There were so many ships. Our ferry (2nd pic) is huge! It's very nice too. We found some seats on the top level. You can also get beds and nicer places on the boat if you paid more. The first picture is me on the boat with the Greek flag and port in the background. It took 5 hours to go from the mainland to Mykonos.

We got picked up at Mykonos along with an Australian couple. Appearantly, this is one of the biggest vacation spots for Australians. Our hotel was up on a hill. The 3rd picture is the view we have from our hotel. Our room was so awesome! First of all, there were 3 beds instead of 2 beds and a cot like the night before. Then we have a couch, tv, fully stocked kitchen, bathroom, and patio. The room was huge! The staff were friendly. It was just such a nice place. I would come back to this hotel anytime. It's great for one of those "sit back and chill" vacations. Also, on Mykonos, all the architecture is the same. I think you can see the houses in the 3rd and 4th picture. They all have a height limit, white walls, and the windows and doors can only be painted with certain colors. I thought they looked really pretty. Our hotel was like that too.

After we got settled in, we went down to the beach and looked at the really pretty water. There's actually not much sand on the beach. It's mostly little rocks. We ate at an outdoor restaurant. We ordered squid and the fish of the day. The manager spoke English and claims he caught the fish this morning. The 4th picture was taken by him at the restaurant. He treated us to free ice cream. That was really nice. He told us afterwards that it was the grand opening of the restaurant. There's a hotel behind it and today they started the restaurant. That explained why they were so excited to serve us. He even offered to let us sit in the beach chairs under the umbrellas for free. You have to pay for the other ones on the beach.

After that we took the bus to Mykonos Town. This bus seems to be operated especially for tourists. We walked around the town for the rest of the day. Well, a lot of the time we were either taking pictures or just sitting on some rocks and enjoying the view of the sea and nice weather. I really love the weather.

Xiumin and I were really excited about these windmills. I mean, they're actually windmills verses turbines. They weren't spinning when we were there though. But they are really cool. After this we walked around the tourist part of town. A lot of the town survives on tourism. There were so many shops selling all kinds of Mykonos and Greek things.

I will talk about the rest of this day in a later post. I think this was the best day of my Greek vacation.