Day 10: Mykonos (to Athens)
By JoeBruin88. Filed in Travels |Tags: Greece, hamar, Travels
Kia: In the morning after breakfast we rented a small car for 30€, which is about $40. It’s much easier to drive around the island than in the city of Athens where there are tons of cars and crazy drivers.
We toured the island for a few hours, looking at a few beaches. The tourists had not woken up yet, so most of the places were deserted. Most of the beaches we saw had these cool-looking umbrellas that looked like mini straw huts.
Hamar: In the course of our exploring the island, we encountered a friendly donkey. We stopped the car next to it to take a picture. It seemed to like the attention.
Octopus Abuse: At Elia Beach we saw one of the restaurant workers taking an octopus that was going to be cooked later and smashing it against a rock to tenderize the meat. Josephine took some video footage of it. The guy was comedian, talking to the octopus asking: “Why? Why aren’t you listening to me?”
Paradise: Our last stop of the day before returning to the port to catch our ferry, was Paradise Beach. We had lunch there at the Tropicana Restaurant. I went swimming as well before the food arrived. The amazing thing was that after I looked closely in the clear tropical blue waters, I could see little fish right there close to the shore. You would never see that in California beaches. The fish were silver with a black-striped tail and some black dots. I wish I had had an underwater camera to take some pictures, but that will have to be for another tropical vacation some other time. Oh yeah, there was a nude section on this beach to the left of the restaurants, but there weren’t very many people on that side. We noticed from the top of the beach that it was just some old naked guy and his fat wife sunbathing, pretty gross.
After lunch we drove back to the car rental place in Chora. The guy in charge of the shop drove us to the port where we caught our ship back to Piraeus and then Athens where Aunt Voula picked us up from the metro at about 9:15 PM.