Mykonos Day 1

Mykonos Day 1

Right now we are on the ferry to Mykenos after a long morning of preparing to leave the island of Santorini.  Our hotel had a shuttle for us at 10:15 am from Perissa to the port.  After traveling across the island once again,viewing the vineyards, we descended the cliffs to the port.  There were quite a few people lined up ready to leave the island and ferries waiting to leave Santorini.  We had a bit of confusion to which one would be ours.  There was a bit of room in the air conditioned terminal which we quickly took up residence.  Prior to this departure, we purchased tickets in town and were given two options: one, was to take an 11:50 ferry or take the 12:00 ferry.  I just said to take the 11:50 and go with that.  Little did we know that this was the super-jet that would haul serious butt and have no deck.  After riding on this guy, which is fast, we do prefer the slower ferry with outside seating and room to walk around.  This positive side to this is that it's fast.  Real fast.  It's a catamaran probably doing 40 knots and smooth as butter.  But there was a cost of 49 €.  Ouch.  Well, it was great to experience it. 

Leaving the island of Santorini was a little tough, I must say, but heading off to a new destination will surely bring excitement.  We are hopping a few islands along the way to get to Mykenos.  Santorini left much to still be explored, but I really appreciate what we were able to see in the brief 3 days there.  Next time, I would love to spend a little time on the black sand beach and visit the wineries.  There were grapes growing all over the island out of what looked to be solely volcanic rock.  It looks like all the terracing that I was talking about was to help the drainage for the grapes.  I will have to research what and how the grapes are farmed.  It looks very interesting.  Some time again, Santorini.

The crowds around here are a diverse international crowd.  Americans are difficult to find, but easy to hear.  They are the only ones that have been yelling at night while everyone is trying to sleep.  Much more on that later.  There is another interesting group here.  That is the British Asian crew.  They come across as self absorbed and are not into the entire picture taking craze as other Asians.  The few that we have seen are interested in guys, and divulging pleasures, only.  The are talking about dinners and drinks that are purchased for them and how they like other places better.  They are not very friendly or up for conversation.  Oh well.  This will be a group to surely eavesdrop upon and gather more intelligence.  The few we have seen have differing tatoos that don't make much sense in English, such as "sucker's dream" across the back of their neck.  On the ferry, it's iPods in, and rest up for the evening's mayhem.  I don't even want to know the stories they will have.