Mykonos, Greece *pics* (vacation entry #5)

Dear Diary,

I’m finally back to continue on with my trip entries.  I’ve been wrapped up in Disney planning in my spare time since I last wrote.  There’s a lot of details to work through but I’m pretty set.  In addition to the Disney Magic Cruise and two park days prior, I decided to add two park days following, too.  This means we’ll get all four parks after all.  I’m so, so giddy with excitment over all of this!  

I’ve also just made a change to my Sept / Oct travel plans.  I had booked a cruise on the Epic with hopes of using my air miles to book the flight to Barcelona.  I had to wait a couple of weeks for the dates to become available for air mile booking.  Once they did the level I wanted to book at wasn’t available.  So the bad news is I cancelled my cruise reservation today.  

The good news is that during the same week I had planned to take the cruise I’m going to Paris instead!!! I was able to use my air miles for that trip’s flight.  So, I’m there for 6 days.  Two or 3 of the days I plan to do Disneyland Paris.  The other half of the trip I’ll explore Paris.  I’m also hoping to do a day trip to London.  I still have a ton of planning to do.  I just rearranged these travel plans today. So exciting!  The cruise would have been a solo trip and I’m planning on travelling on my own to Paris, too.

Okay…. back to the Greece pictures now…  This one is from the wee hours of the morning as the ship approached Mykonos.

Another pretty ship in port that day….

Getting a bit lighter out…. a 3 masted ship approaching…
 

The ships atrium that morning…. pretty quiet…

As I went to meet up with my tour group for the day I passed a lounge that I liked the glass work in….

I think these lighting fixtures are neat…

Especially this one….

Off the ship now…. isn’t she pretty!?

Lots of little boat crushes all in a row…

Here is that ship I photographed coming in earlier that morning now docked.  The Jade is docked beyond it…

On the tour now…. A nice view of one of the typical windmills and then the coastline dotted with buildings…

The view in the other direction….

In this next one there are several windmills in a row down close to the water…

This island had many red domed churches unlike the others that had the blue domed churches….

We made a beach stop and I had the chance to dip my toes in the Agean Sea….

This was a pretty stop….  I also was able to get in touch with home using the Wi-Fi while here.  I never did end up needing to use the ship’s internet.  I found connections often enough while in port.

A photo through the bus window….

Same

church with a view of it’s red roof….

The tour moved on to a little town square area where we explored a monastery and then had lunch….

A monk within the monastery….

church bells….

a nook within the church courtyard…

Inside the church…

Another very pretty spot within the monastery courtyard….

A priest perhaps…

A very yummy lunch and ouzo to drink (it’s like a liqourice tasting liqour)

Lunch location…

The view from where I had lunch…

This time of year the vegetation is very dry and brown.  The tour guide mentioned that in the spring it is more green with wild flowers.  This is a pretty bay though even when dry….

A colorful building along the way….

A lovely color of sea….

I was back on the ship fairly early in the afternoon.  The sun on the balcony was perfect so I enjoyed my book from there!

A treat delivered to the room….

The ship’s pretty theatre…

That night I ate in the Italian restaurant and there was really great, live music….

And that concludes the day…..
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More trip to come.  Hopefully it won’t take me so long to come back to post.  I’m curious if anyone is reading so if you made it this far please note with your name even if there’s no comment.  Thanks!