Our holiday from travelling Part 2: Mykonos

looking into another sunset

After a horrible, delayed and rocky 4 hour catamaran ride that was meant to take 2 hours, we arrived at the port of Mykonos. Arvi was feeling very average after having spent the majority of the trip in the toilet being sick, lucky I have a stronger stomach! After Arvi recovered enough to walk we made our way to our beautiful resort, located about 15 minutes out of Mykonos town in a place called Agios Ioannis. Complete with a pool, sun beds and 2 beaches within 10 minutes walking distance, we felt like we were living the high life.

windy rough seas

in the resort

high life

Every morning we woke to an amazing breakfast of toast, eggs, pastries, ham, cheese and my favourite, Greek yoghurt! I must had eaten about 3 kilos of it during our stay. We had both already accepted that Mykonos would not be a cheap trip and we would not be able to cook up our standard cheap pasta dinners so we treated ourselves to a few Greek meals out at restaurant. Our other meals consisted of picnics of dolmades and salami and the odd 2.5 euro gyros (a bit like small kebab with chips on it).

exploring the rocks around the beach

reading,sun baking, relaxing, sunset

We spent most of our days relaxing and reading by the pool or at the nearby secluded, sometimes nudist beach. This secret beach was just so beautiful and clear without the busyness of restaurants and payed sun beds like most of the other beaches in Mykonos. It seemed like the nudists were mainly males and, how can I say… very well ‘groomed’ (Sorry Vanaema and Nan!). Arvi decided to keep his shorts on. We also fitted in a walk to the nearby town of Ornos, where we watched the kite surfers battle the wind.

on our way to the secret beach

secret beach

walking around Mykonos town

Beach in Ornos

We couldn’t leave Mykonos without sampling the nightlife. While paying a 50 euro entry fee into Paradise club wasn’t really our scene, we still made it to the infamous Paradise Beach for a sunset party. It was like nothing I have every seen, I felt like we were on spring break! Pumping music, half naked guys, girls in bikinis being showered in Moet champagne and vodka, annoying DJ that talks through every song, people dancing on podiums, even the odd male genitalia here and there! (Apologies again, Vanaema and Nan). We couldn’t believe it when we saw a private party in the club had at least 2 dozen Moet bottles on ice and just as many bottles of Vodka and Tequila. We didn’t know what to drink and wanted something cheap so we copied a group of trashy girls and shirtless guys and ordered a bottle of wine, no glasses, just straight from the bottle. After that we headed back into Mykonos town to a few more bars before crashing at around 1am before the bars even got busy and followed the coast about 1.5 hours back to our resort. 

crazy kids its only 5pm

what? everyone else is doing it!