Expensive,
decadent, and fun for
gays, staight people
and familes too.
Intense nightlife with clubs that
never stop, and if you
can't handle it there are
frequent boats to escape to other
less wild islands.
For a little
culture there are trips to the uninhabited
ancient island of
Delos and the extensive ruins there. Plenty of excellent if not
crowded beaches
but people don't come to
Mykonos to escape but to party and people-watch. Bring
money and
credit cards. Ferry trip is about 5 hours from
Pireaus and three
from
Rafina.
Catamarans and
Dolphins do it in half the time. Easy connections
to
Syros,
Tinos with several ferries a day. Also daily connections to
Paros,
Naxos,
Ios,
Santorini,
Andros and other islands during the summer. Also
less frequent connections to
Sifnos,
Samos,
Ikaria, the
Dodecanese,
Crete
and
Thessaloniki. There is also an international airport.
Mykonos is easily one of the biggest islands among the
tourists. Think of what
Florida has become, and you will get an idea. However,
it is a beatiful island, and the
purists should not avoid it simply because
it is a major tourist attraction. The island of
Delos is worth the trip, and
is cool becasue you can "get lost" from the rest of the
group, and
spend the night on an
uninhabited island, surrouned by the ruins of
ancient
civilization. The weather is warm, and you can stay up late drinking
wine and
wandering around the
moonlit ruins, and watch the sun rise over the
Aegean;
not too
shabby. The next day, the next boatload of
tourists will arive, and
you can slip into that group, and got back to
Mykonos with them.
Mykonos has
a large
gay community, or rather, it is the summer hangout of choice for
gays
in Greece (both tourist and native). The
nightlife is unending and absolutely
fun. You have to like
crowds, and enjoy meeting
strangers to really get a
sense of
Mykonos. If you are
female, there will be no shortage of
Greek Lovers
trying to
woo you. It is popular with first time
American teenage tourists,
as they are still getting used to the fact that there is no drinking age in
Greece,
so you can
stroll down the beach with a bottle of
wine and a few
good friends.
<sigh>.../me misses home. All in all, worth the trip.
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