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Published: October 10th 2005
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We had to get up really early, like 4.30am for our early departure to head to Mykonos…
One of the boys had to sit through the entire breakfast dressed as a girl to for fill his coach dare!! He looked so funny and wasn’t happy about it!
We lost one of the guys from NZ, who was on our tour… he went missing last night and we had to leave without him… We all think that he was on some sort of medication that he’d stopped taking as he’d been getting worse for days… That’s the second guy from NZ that I’ve seen this happen to on my trips since I’ve been away…
The 5.5 hours we spent on the ferry across to Mykonos was the most boring 5.5hrs of my life!!!! There was absolutely nothing to do at all and the top deck was packed and we all just had to sit there on plastic chairs and wait for the journey to be over!
Finally arrived in Mykonos to an island that looked pretty barren, I wasn’t aware that Mykonos was pretty much just one big bloody rock! The water looked nice but you wouldn’t run
a goat on it!
The Contiki resort was ordinary and in the middle of no where in relation to the main part of town. I got to stay in the luxury ‘single foam bed’ in our room, with my new room mate who behaved pretty much as a stalker for the remainder of the tour….
We went for a swim and got right into the sun baking which is pretty much how I spent my whole 5 days on the island.
The resort is out of control with people running around naked and sculling cocktails… not what I had expected at all!!
One of the guys on our tour completed his bus dare by stripping to his undies and giving our tour manager a lap dance in the idle of the bar… all very bizarre behaviour!
The following day we headed into town in the afternoon by cab. I swear you really are taking your life into your own hands when you choose to travel in the Greek traffic. There are no rules and they’re crazy! Some of the guys hired scoters and jeeps and all I can say is that it’s better them than
me!! In Mykonos you give way to cars entering the round-a-bout even when you are already on it!! The cars going around the round-a-bout just stop on it to let cars on, it’s all very bizarre!
The streets in the town are walkable. The stone paths painted white around the stone - it’s very pretty but the streets are mainly pedestrian, narrow and very busy - like a little rabbit warren once you are inside it.
We stopped at a nice bar where the balcony was out over the water - it was lovely. You wouldn’t want to drink too much, beers and were €6 and cocktails €11!!
Met up with some fellow contiki’ers but I wasn’t that excited so decided to catch a cab back which was a complete shit fight, these people don’t know how to queue and they continually push in front of each over…
The following day we went back down to the beach for about 4 hours. The water is so clear and you find fish swimming with you. The pebbles hurt your feet though (well mine anyways!!!) and you sink down into them. Later we had a few cocktails at
the pool bar.
Headed into town to go to Paradise Beach which was like a rave party on the beach. Heaps of people where there, most bikini clad or less and dancing on the tables on the bar. There were people everywhere, some making the most of the dark areas back towards the beach! The place was pretty full on and I wasn’t really in the mood for it, as I hadn’t been feeling that well for the last couple of days so I caught a cab home and left the others to it and I have to say it was the scariest ride of my life! The drive was easily doing 130km whilst overtaking coming in to blind corners and I thought I was going to die…
The following day we headed took it pretty easy, had a few drinks at the bar then headed back into town and had dinner on the water at the Old Port end which was nice. We all went to Argo Bar where it cost me €10 for a vodka which was insane!!! We then went to the Scandinavian Bar for a bit before going home in another scary cab ride
- it must be a prerequisite to be an insane driver to be a cab driver around here…
I’ve now only got 3 weeks till I go home, not long now… I’m starting to feel a bit over the contiki experience now and probably would have preferred to do some solo travelling for a while and have some space.
We headed back to the port to catch our ferry back to ‘The Greece’, Athens. Once again a dead boring trip back across the ocean to Athens to our hotel, which is probably one of the nicest hotels on the whole tour.
We reunited with the rest of our group (who’d been on the island cruising option instead of Mykonos) and it was great to see them!! They were pretty much the more normal people on our tour who balanced out the crazy young people that came to Mykonos with us.
We were tired by Arty was excited and wanted to take us out for the night so we walked to where we could catch the train with Crazy Nina, Rohan, Elisa and Nat and went down to the water to a restaurant and had great Gyros’s.
Then went to the Matrix bar for a drink, then onto a better bar with really expensive drinks. I got my second wind and wanted to kick on but knew we’d all be tired in the morning so we went home by about 3am…
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