Off to Ios

Our ferry wasn’t to leave Mykonos until mid afternoon so after breakfast Tim and I caught a bus to the beach just up the road, Stefanos. While, not quite as nice as Platy Gialos in my opinion, it was a nice beach and plenty of space to lay down our towels, we were going to pay 10 Euros for a lounge again. After an hour or so at the beach we decided it would be best to head back to the hotel, we had forgotten our sun cream, and didn’t want to fry. We walked back instead of taking the bus, it wasn’t a long walk, but there wasn’t much of a footpath, so it was a bit dodgy. Back at the hotel we just lounged around the pool and had a swim before heading to the port to catch our ferry to Ios.

We arrived in Ios and dropped our bags at the hotel before meeting back up to take the bus up to town. Ios’s township was adorable as well. It had much more of a community feeling than Ios, children could be seen playing in the Plaza, etc. However, up in the town it had the same charming narrow streets, white washed buildings, and blue shutters that could be found in Mykonos. Steve led us to another of his favorite restaurants that had a beautiful outdoor terrace. Steve recommended the lamb in the oven, and of course everyone ordered it, unfortunately, or as it turned out fortunately, they only had three servings left. So some of us obligingly agreed to have chicken in the oven instead, we of course ended up being the lucky once, as when the lamb came out it was hard as rock and was more bone than anything else. I was one of the lucky ones who had chicken, and I must say my meal was delicious, but poor Steve, all those with lamb could do was complain about how awful it was, and I must say it was beginning to be a bit of a down, until they brought out the EZ towels. For those of you that don’t know what an EZ Towel is, it is apparently a product of New Zealand, and our fellow tour member Robin Worthington, just so happened to be a representative for the product back home. She was so excited that they had EZ Towels in Greece that she practically gave us a full on infomercial telling us of all of its amazing uses, much like Bubba and his shrimp in Forest Gump. Anyway it provided for a good laugh (both for us and for our fellow diners on the terrace), saved the meal, and turned into a long running inside joke for the remainder of our tour.

After Dinner we headed to a pub to watch the USA vs. England game. I headed back to the hotel with Sue and Granddad a bit earlier than the rest to try and get a bit of work done. Sunday we would have almost a full day in Ios before leaving early evening for our final Greek island destination, Santorini.