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A Delightful Day Trip to Delos

27 Saturday Dec 2014

Posted by mrsselfish in Europe, Greece, Mykonos

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Delos, Europe, Greece, Island Hopping, Mykonos, Selfish Year, Selfish Years

This is post fourteen of sixteen of our summer trip to Greece. Check out our other posts in the series here:

  • Greece Lightning: Heading to Greece
  • Acropolis for Breakfast: Staying at the Hilton Athens
  • Starting at the Top: The Acropolis
  • Oompa! Eating Athens
  • Taking it Indoors: Athen’s Museums
  • Athen’s Other Sites
  • Room with a View: Staying in Santorini
  • Santorini’s Spectacular Sights: Part 1
  • Santorini’s Spectacular Sights: Part 2
  • Looking for Santorini’s Best Eats
  • It’s All Greek to Me: Heading to Naxos
  • There’s a Meat Town in Naxos!
  • Shots! Shots! ShotsShotsShots! Heading to Mykonos
  • A Delightful Day Trip to Delos
  • The Trashy Side of the Greek Islands
  • Bling Bling y’all! Upgraded at the Hyatt Regency Montreal

Mr. Selfish and I weren’t too overly impressed with Mykonos. We felt that the crowd was too young and drunk for our liking. Nevertheless, if we hadn’t spent two nights in Mykonos, we wouldn’t have taken a day trip to Delos, which was awesome.

Mykonos 01

Delos is known as one of the most important mythological, historical and archaeological sites in Greece. According to mythology, it is the birthplace of the gods of Apollo and Artemis. Although Delos is still being excavated, a great deal of excavation has already occurred. Mr. Selfish loves ruins and was in heaven.

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Shots! Shots! ShotsShotsShots! Heading to Mykonos

26 Friday Dec 2014

Posted by mrsselfish in Europe, Greece, Mykonos

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Europe, Greece, Island Hopping, Mykonos, Selfish Year, Selfish Years, Windmills

This is post thirteen of sixteen of our summer trip to Greece. Check out our other posts in the series here:

  • Greece Lightning: Heading to Greece
  • Acropolis for Breakfast: Staying at the Hilton Athens
  • Starting at the Top: The Acropolis
  • Oompa! Eating Athens
  • Taking it Indoors: Athen’s Museums
  • Athen’s Other Sites
  • Room with a View: Staying in Santorini
  • Santorini’s Spectacular Sights: Part 1
  • Santorini’s Spectacular Sights: Part 2
  • Looking for Santorini’s Best Eats
  • It’s All Greek to Me: Heading to Naxos
  • There’s a Meat Town in Naxos!
  • Shots! Shots! ShotsShotsShots! Heading to Mykonos
  • A Delightful Day Trip to Delos
  • The Trashy Side of the Greek Islands
  • Bling Bling y’all! Upgraded at the Hyatt Regency Montreal

While researching the Greek islands, I discovered that Mykonos is known as a huge “party” island. Against our better judgment, particularly since we are not (and never have been) rambunctious party-goers, Mr. Selfish and I still decided to spend two days in Mykonos. It just looked so lovely in all of the photos I saw online.

Well, we were not let down. Mykonos is indeed as pretty as the photos but also full of young, loud, and drunk party-goers as its reputation would have you believe. Mr. Selfish will go over the party side of Mykonos in a later post. This post will focus on all things pretty in Mykonos.

Mykonos 01

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It’s All Greek to Me: Heading to Naxos

23 Tuesday Dec 2014

Posted by mrsselfish in Europe, Greece, Naxos

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Europe, Greece, Island Hopping, Mount Zas, Naxos, Portara, Selfish Year, Selfish Years, Temple of Demeter, Zas Cave, Zeus Cave

This is post eleven of sixteen of our summer trip to Greece. Check out our other posts in the series here:

  • Greece Lightning: Heading to Greece
  • Acropolis for Breakfast: Staying at the Hilton Athens
  • Starting at the Top: The Acropolis
  • Oompa! Eating Athens
  • Taking it Indoors: Athen’s Museums
  • Athen’s Other Sites
  • Room with a View: Staying in Santorini
  • Santorini’s Spectacular Sights: Part 1
  • Santorini’s Spectacular Sights: Part 2
  • Looking for Santorini’s Best Eats
  • It’s All Greek to Me: Heading to Naxos
  • There’s a Meat Town in Naxos!
  • Shots! Shots! ShotsShotsShots! Heading to Mykonos
  • A Delightful Day Trip to Delos
  • The Trashy Side of the Greek Islands
  • Bling Bling y’all! Upgraded at the Hyatt Regency Montreal

When I was researching which Greek islands to visit, it was clear to me that we should visit the renowned islands of Santorini and Mykonos. Since both of these are very popular islands, I wanted to visit a lesser known island as well. I ended up settling on Naxos because it was easy to travel between Santorini, Naxos, and Mykonos and because it is supposedly the island on which the Greeks vacation.

Naxos ended up being my (and probably Mr. Selfish’s too) favorite island. It was so much less touristy than Santorini and Mykonos but equally beautiful. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t visit Santorini or Mykonos. But if you want to experience a more low-key Greek island, then Naxos should be on your list.

This is the view of Naxos as you’re approaching on the ferry from the water.

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Santorini’s Spectacular Sights: Part 2

21 Sunday Dec 2014

Posted by mrsselfish in Europe, Greece, Santorini

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Amoudi Bay, Europe, Greece, Island Hopping, Oia, Santorini, Selfish Year, Selfish Years

This is post nine of sixteen of our summer trip to Greece. Check out our other posts in the series here:

  • Greece Lightning: Heading to Greece
  • Acropolis for Breakfast: Staying at the Hilton Athens
  • Starting at the Top: The Acropolis
  • Oompa! Eating Athens
  • Taking it Indoors: Athen’s Museums
  • Athen’s Other Sites
  • Room with a View: Staying in Santorini
  • Santorini’s Spectacular Sights: Part 1
  • Santorini’s Spectacular Sights: Part 2
  • Looking for Santorini’s Best Eats
  • It’s All Greek to Me: Heading to Naxos
  • There’s a Meat Town in Naxos!
  • Shots! Shots! ShotsShotsShots! Heading to Mykonos
  • A Delightful Day Trip to Delos
  • The Trashy Side of the Greek Islands
  • Bling Bling y’all! Upgraded at the Hyatt Regency Montreal

On our way from the airport to our accommodations in Oia, Mr. Selfish and I asked for recommendations from our driver. We were wary of the many tourist traps in Oia and inquired about any less popular restaurants. Our driver informed us that we had to go down to Amoudi Bay, where the hoards from the cruise ships typically didn’t go and the seafood was outstanding. We were glad we listened to him.

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Santorini’s Spectacular Sights: Part 1

20 Saturday Dec 2014

Posted by mrsselfish in Europe, Greece, Santorini

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Europe, Greece, Island Hopping, Oia, Santorini, Selfish Year, Selfish Years

This is post eight of sixteen of our summer trip to Greece. Check out our other posts in the series here:

  • Greece Lightning: Heading to Greece
  • Acropolis for Breakfast: Staying at the Hilton Athens
  • Starting at the Top: The Acropolis
  • Oompa! Eating Athens
  • Taking it Indoors: Athen’s Museums
  • Athen’s Other Sites
  • Room with a View: Staying in Santorini
  • Santorini’s Spectacular Sights: Part 1
  • Santorini’s Spectacular Sights: Part 2
  • Looking for Santorini’s Best Eats
  • It’s All Greek to Me: Heading to Naxos
  • There’s a Meat Town in Naxos!
  • Shots! Shots! ShotsShotsShots! Heading to Mykonos
  • A Delightful Day Trip to Delos
  • The Trashy Side of the Greek Islands
  • Bling Bling y’all! Upgraded at the Hyatt Regency Montreal

Since I’ve been frantically preparing for Baby Selfish, Mr. Selfish has taken on the responsibility of finishing up our 2014 trip reports, which was fine with me. But, then the other day, I heard someone refer to this blog as “Mr. Selfish’s blog.”  So, here I am, back to writing trip reports. There’s no way that this blog is Mr. Selfish’s blog!

The main reason that I wanted to visit Greece was to bask in the views of Santorini. I’ve never seen a bad photo of Santorini, and after having been there, I must admit that it is difficult to take a bad photo of it.

Santorini - Sites 2 005

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