We arrived at Mykonos to a storm. We had rough weather the night before, not that you noticed it on the Celebrity Silhouette. There were another five or six cruise ships in harbour, however, we had berthed at the dock.
I don’t know how the politics works on who uses the dock and who doesn’t, the only deduction to this is we’re the biggest so we get to dock, nah, nah!
I’m sure somewhere in this trip we’ll have to pull out the dinghies sometime and row to shore :-).
Mykonos, a shuttle bus to town, a whole five minute trip from the ship. The weather was looking real dodgy, so I took a couple pictures around the bus stop. Then the storm came. In between squalls, we made our way to town. Then it rained and it rained, in fact it hadn’t rained since April this year.
After the “what if” conversion of what if we had waited for the storm to pass before leaving the ship, we resigned the fact that this was a great opportunity, storm or not. So after careful manoeuvring underneath balconies, folding sun shades on windows, we found a position to enjoy the storm.
After 20 minutes, I figured it’s time to move so I took my shoes off and put them in my backpack; barefoot in Mykonos. All the water running down the streets was really clean so I though it was a better option than walking in wet runners.
We found a coffee shop, stopped for another 30 minutes, then it started to clear. We were not disappointed to say the least. As we left the ship early, the streets were empty so we had the privilege of watching the shop owners clean up. This meant we could easily move through the narrow alleyways while everyone back at the ship was probably deciding whether to go or stay.
We managed to get to the famous windmills at Mykonos and head back for some lunch, nothing like a real Souvlaki in the local environment.
From there we looked at a few ocean going vessels, mighty, meek and mild. There was some serious kit floating in the harbour. By the time we left, everyone was in town, definitely time to leave.
Finally back to boat, Keith and I managed to find a spot to swim in the Med not far from the ship.
