We are midway through the cruise and have hit Ios, Paros and Delos, in addition to the islands that we had already visited in our last post. We still have Mykonos, Siros and Egina to go before we dock on Thursday. So far our favourite place has been Paros, which is a really picturesque and quiet island. The islands all have similar looks, with whitewashed houses, blue trim and stark landscape. Right now it is early summer here, so we are lucky enough to see everything at it's most lush.
We have had really smooth conditions for sailing (motoring, actually) and have been incredibly lucky with the lack of crowds. This morning we spent three hours wandering through the Delos archeaological site and were a few of the only ones there for the first two hours. Within two weeks the temperatures will go up by about 10 degrees (we are mid 20s everyday) and the crowds will triple!
For those architectural history buffs, there are arches at Delos that pre-date any that the Roman's made by half a millenium. Pretty amazing. There are even older arches in Iraq (Mesopotamia).
Sorry, no photos right now! The boat WiFi can't quite handle an upload!
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