Milos

On Friday 1st of June me and the other Erasmus students from TEI decided to leave to Milos! Me, Marie, Erica, Marti, Alex, Pierre and Mariel didn't really know anything at all about the island. I had just heard that it's really beautiful and that I have to go there! We didn't have an accommodation, info or anything about the place we were going. We bought the tickets from the harbour and left at 8pm o'clock boat towards an adventure.

We arrived to Milos around 10.30 pm and started walking in the port until we found four people with studios and hotel signs. We started negotiating about the price and what they had to offer. The first woman and her hotel was a 3 minute walk away and she had a swimming pool and she promised us two rooms one for the girls with four beds and the other to boys with three beds. When she lowered the price to 10 euros each/ night we had a deal! + her daughter was so cute! :D The name of the hotel was Hotel Moschoula it's a family run hotel with a good service. :) 

After leaving our stuff in our rooms we left to walk in the port and the small center of Adamas. We started comparing the prices for a day boat trip around the island. There were so many good options and seven different opinions what people wanted to do and which boat to choose. Even after sitting down and eating delicious crepes we couldn't decide between the two best ones. We decided to go to sleep and wake up early the next day for not to miss the departures of the boats. We agreed a time to meet the boys outside the hotel.

Of course the next morning when we girls were ready the boys were still sleeping. We told the guys to come to the port and went ahead to decide. Eventually we just chose a boat called Oneira (=dream) and agreed on paying 40 euros each including food and drinks. The boat would leave at 10.30am and come back at 6.30pm. We had an hour spare time which we spent walking around and watching Adamas wake up for a new sunny day.

At 10.30 we all went to the sailing boat, also the boys who had finally woken up. We sat at the bow of the boat when we left from the harbour having a close call of collading into an other boat.. At the sea it was so relaxing and the captain and his father were telling us history at the same time as we were looking the sights and the island.

me and Marie

The first stop was a place called Vani, if I remember correctly, but I really can't remember anything about it since me and Marie were goofing around and taking pictures of the crystal clear water.

The next stop was at Sykia which was breathtaking! It was this cave surrounded by huge rocks! The water was magical, it looked like it was photoshopped! We all went to this small lifeboat and in to the cave, it was unreal! You could see the corals shining from the water. Amazing! After that they offered us snorkling equipment but the water was so cold!! I had swimmed so many times before, but there, at that time it was really cold. For a second I even thought of not going. I'm glad that Pierre convinced me to jump with him to the water. This time we swam to the same cave and saw the corals even closer, the underneath rocks and everything, oh my god! I enjoyed the snorkling more than I did in Egypt last summer. This time I couldn't see any colourful fishes but everything else was more magical for me.

The rock which looks tiny but it was really big

After snorkling a while we got a crazy, stupid idea to climb to this huge rock coming from the ocean. The rock was slippery and Marie cut her elbow and knee when climbing up and she was bleeding. Me and Marie couldn't get to the highest point of the rock so Mariel helped us by pulling us there. Immediately after he did I knew that I would have a hard time going down.. The view was amazing and an other boat arrived and people took photos of us since we looked so funny on this huge rock. After a while we started figuring out how to get down. We knew that we couldn't jump since there were a lot of rocks under the surface.. Alex and Mariel started climbing lower 'cause the really wanted to jump. The rock wall was so steep that I just could't do it since I would have rolled down like a rock. So, me, Marie and Pierre had to go down the same way we came. Pierre went first since he is really tall. We gave him instructions were to place his feet since he couldn't see anything going down backwards. It was really scary, taking one miss step, you would have been on the rocks. Then it was my turn and I was terrified!! My legs were around two meters too short to get down by myself.. Eventually, after having couple of scary moments Pierre took me into his lap and lifted me down while standing on a two small rocks in a very scary position. Marie came down the same way.. The other two boys managed to climb the rock down so they could jump but it still looked so scary since the rocks in the water weren't that far away from them..!

The cave

The coral

The cave

Next stop was at Kleftiko which was also an awesome place! It used to be a home to Pirates.. Aka. Pirate bay or I don't know if it was just me and Marie who used that name.. :D There again we went around by the smaller boat and took pictures, of course. The water there also was so clear! And all the caves, perfect! There we went snorkling and again me, Pierre and Marie found a nice flat rock on which we climbed (not high this time!) and just relaxed sitting and watching the ocean. After a while we started snorkling even farther away until we found this huge huge dark cave. I was terrified going inside but for sure I didn't want to wait for them outside alone in the ocean. The cave was so dark and the farther you went the darker it became. On one corner of the cave there was like this narrow way where of course they wanted to go to check if it was a dead end or not.. I already at this point had the horror imagines in my head..! But we made out of there alive and back to the boat to eat delicious food. :)

All of us! :) 

Erica, me, Marie and the captain

the dead end scary cave into which we snorkled (we had a light with us so it's not dark now..)

Then we continued more farther (at this point we were on the south shore of the island). We made one more stop at somewhere and were given an opportunity to swim but there it was so windy that no one wanted to swim there. Little by little we started making our way back. On our way somewhere near the famous Lion rock (it could also been seen as a rabbit) we spotted DOLPHINS! A dolphin family! Three adults and a baby! We drove close to them and they started playing with our boat! They were only one meter a way from us! They were so big, much bigger than I had imagined and SO beuatiful!! Everytime they started going away we turned our boat a bit and they started to swim with us again! IT WAS AMAZING!

Lion rock

Then we headed towards Adamas and on the way we passed three small fishing villages which looked like straight from a postcards!!

Back at Milos

We were back at the port around when the captain had promised us and while arriving, from the radio of the boat, I heard my favourite songs at the moment and I went so crazy. On board with us were also a greek couple who were laughing to me when I was singing along with the greek song and wondering how I know the lyrics! :D 

Small, narrow allies at Adamas, the center of Milos

At the harbour we decided to walk around and wait for the sunset. We walked in the narrow streets and found a huge church or cathedral on the top of the center. Eventually we decided to go to the hotel since it was a bit cloudy and we should have waited at least one hour before the sunset. Me and Marie decided to go swimming to the swimming pool for a while and then take a showers and get ready to leave for eat. We searched for a restaurant so long and walked a lot until finally we found a small and quiet one right next to our hotel.. After we went to our hotel room to play drinking games which didn't work that well since we couldn't even play them sober. :D At two o'clock we decided to go check the night life for a while. Alex and Mariel "borrowed" two SMALL girl's bicycles from our hotel and biked around the center. They were so afraid that someone might steel them so they carried them with us to the bar. Us girls and Pierre stayed at some club and danced when the other two boys soon went back to sleep. We stayed an hour or something and then went to the hotel to sleep also.

The next morning on Sunday we went to hire ATV's to go around the island. We were seven people so we decided that one of us would wait outside and hide when the rest of us went inside. We hired three ATV's for a day and the guy was so annoying. When we went inside he started: "Oh, I know you. You are the group how danced funny last night at the club.." To which we replayed that we were to only ones dancing at the club.. Anyway we go them and started driving and Marti hopped on. We drove like 5 minutes when the man drove next to us with his moto PISSED OFF! He was so pissed off. Mariel had to go with him and hire a scooter.

First stop was the famous Sarakiniko. It was so awesome! We jumped from a cliff which was 8 metres high and people stop to look us and the photos of us. The place was so cool!! We had a blast!

Shipwreck

We also swam to the rock near by and again people took photos of us :D 

Next stop was same small village of Zefiria but there wasn't really anything so we just quickly passed it. The next beach was Kyriaki beach which was so white and the water was crystal clear! 

Marie, me, Marti and Erica

Kyriaki Beach

Next beach was called Tsigaro and me and Marie were the first ones going there since the other stayed to take photos from the up. It was a surprise how you were supposed to go to the beach, it wasn't that easy.. See the photos below.. :D Oh, and Marie went first and at some point she stopped and whispered to me oh my god this is a nude beach should we still go there is only one old couple there.. :D 

The first ladders..

The rode without which you couldn't have managed it

The second ladder and almost at the beach

Soon after we came the couple got dressed and left. It was so relaxing there surrounded by the ocean and the sea. After we left we had a trouble with one of the ATV's which didn't started.. But eventually after 15 minutes of Alex working on it he got it to work! :) We were supposed to drive somewhere high to watch the sunset but the boys decided to drive on the water with one of the ATV's and the result was that it died. We had to call the crazy man to come and help us.. He said that there was water in the engine and that's way it didn't work and the boys told him that they don't know how that happened. So, we missed the sunset and got straight to the hotel.

In the evening we went to Pollonia to eat and after drove around the village for hours like crazy!! I didn't like it at all! It was so dangerous and we had couple of close calls and almost accidents.. I told many times that I don't like this but since I was the only one.. We drove over two hours by night when everyone was sleeping. We got back to the hotel around 3 am. 

The next morning on Monday we were supposed to return the ATV's at 10 am but the boys were still sleeping. Eventually we returned them at 11 am and were a little afraid of the men but everything went smoothly and we even got our deposit back. Then me and Marie hang around on the pool, the girls left for shopping and the boys went to eat. Eventually we all had fun at the pool before getting showers and starting our way to the port and back to Athens at around 3.30pm boat.  The boat arrived so late to Athens that I was so mad 'cause I had plans and I hate when people have to wait for me.. But eventually the Milos trip was perfect and the island became one of my favourites! It had so much different things to offer! :)