Friday, June 06, 2008

Mykonos

This is where the real party started--and I'm not being trite: Full Moon Party, Paradise Beach, 1:00 am. We may have arrived there 38 hours fashionably late but I can assure you we didn't miss out on any of the fun...ok, so maybe we missed some of the dancing...or, all of the dancing...but there was still plenty to see.

Mykonos marked the beginning of our island adventures with cobblestone streets, whitewashed buildings, colorful doorways, clear blue water, and feral kitties...lots and lots of roaming beady-eyed cats...and waitresses.

Our hotel was just off the beach. A beach aptly named Agios Stefanos. It was a typically whitewashed building with bright red doors and shutters. Despite the fact that we got bread and diluted orange juice for breakfast, the beds had petrified mattresses, and the shower curtain could have been cited for sexual harrassment...we loved it. I think because it was our first.
In order to give ourselves some recovery time we headed to a beach called Platy Gialos. There we made friends with Massager Boy--an actual title, not a nickname--and spent some time both seaside and poolside. Gretchen and I got in trouble for trying to investigate a church...we were kind of scaling a hill and she was about to climb the wall...so instead we snuck into a hotel pool. Later we bought dinner from a different hotel and earned some pool time just above the Meditteranean.
We spent the remainder of the day wandering around Mykonos Town and stumbled across 16th century windmills--you know, the kind you would expect midget archers to inhabit and shoot flaming arrows out of. Down the hill from there was an area called Little Venice where we ate dinner just off the beach...again, watched the sunset, took 50 pictures of an authentic Greek man and his paper mache bagpipe, encountered Petros the pelican--the Mykonos mascot, and had a Canadian kindly tell us his country is bigger than ours.
Not bad for a first day, I'd say.

2 comments:

SHELLS BELLS! said...

Ahhh the memories of Mykonos.

Brittney said...

Petrified mattresses?! That's the most hilarious description ever. I love it.