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| meze and ouzo |
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| coming into Mykonos - no rain yet! |
Weather – 19º, sunny sailing in, then cloudy,
then torrential, then sun in the afternoon
Steps – 9,310
The rain finally caught up with us. Sailing
into Mykonos it was actually sunny, so sunny in fact that we had to close the
curtains. That did not last.
35 of us boarded the bus, some with rain jackets,
hats and umbrellas and others with no rain gear AT ALL! We hoped we would be
the fools with our rain gear…nope…we were happy to be decked out when the skys
opened. We got from the bus, to the taverna, to the church, to the
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| monastery |
church’s
museum, to a short wander around the tiny town, and to another
taverna before the
deluge began. It absolutely poured. Luckily for us we were already settled with
an Alfa beer (€5, cash only)
in front of each of us.
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| cats are even in the church |
I mentioned that there were 35 of us on the bus…this
is waaaaay too many for a Regent tour. We find out later that the another group
of the same tour had 21! Whaaaat!?! Why on earth is there 35 on one tour and 21
on the next. Anyway…we aren’t not surprised…we know excursions and excursion
management is a weak point for Regent, but still…not good.
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| alter |
This tour is a 2-manner. Meaning it’s a bit
strenuous or the steps are challenging – uneven, slippery etc. There is a guy
with OXYGEN! I’m not sure what he did for a lot of the tour, but oxygen is something
we rarely see on tours. His wife had just had a new
knee, but I think he presented
the biggest challenge between the 2 of them. There are plenty of tours that are
less strenuous – not sure why they picked this one. |
| Mykonos town |
The tour started with a panoramic tour of
Mykonos with its whitewashed buildings.
After about 30 min of the bus negotiating the
very narrow and winding streets, we arrived at Ano Mera village. Here (at 930AM)
we had ouzo and meze.) The meze was easier to identify than the last meze we
had, but not as exciting.
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| beer in the rain |
The 16th-century Panagia Tourliani Monastery is
small but beautiful. It is similarly decorated to the ones we visited in Lesbos
– to me these are more churches than they are monasteries. There was also a
small but impressive museum with artifacts from the monastery. |
| monastery |
On the way back to ship we were supposed to stop
for a walking tour of Mykonos town, we had pretty much decided to blow that off
because of the weather, but as we got closer, the weather seemed to break, so
we stuck with it. Only 12 of us out of the original 35 remained.
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| 5 churches - Panagia Paraportiani |
We wandered along with Sarah, our guide, as she
told us this and that about the old town. We walked along narrow, whitewashed
streets apparently laid  |
| monastery museum |
out in a labyrinth pattern to confuse attacking
pirates,
saw windmills, and stopped for a traditional Greek bread called Koulouri
Thessalonikis – very much like a bagel covered in sesame seeds.
There were many, many churches – some very tiny and some privately owned.
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