Delos

A windy day to take the ferry to Delos, the sacred, uninhabited island at the centre of the Cyclades.





Looking back as we leave the calm of Mykonos.











View from Mount Kinthos.










Apparently one of the oldest Greek inscriptions.






Here kitty kitty.... One of Naxian's gifts.

Wishing you salt spray drenching on the way back from wherever you've been today.

Mykonos

First evening in Mykonos...
















Dinner at Ornos beach.









Pelican filakia

Paros

Somehow not feeling blue, despite the blue sea, blue skies, blue doors and blue domes.









The port at Naoussa, where octopus hangs out.












If all that blue is too much and you don't feel like braving the world, one could just hang out by the pool.








One of the picturesque little chapels in Parikia.











Despite all the blue, Paros is known for things white. The marble used by many of the sculptors dating back to 6th centuary BC came from here. If you're in Paris, you can see a piece of Paros by visiting the Louvre. The Venus de Milo is made of Parian marble.














Up near the marble quarries is the cute town of Lefkes, worth the visit.








And a couple of nice beaches on the east side of the island, looking across to Naxos.



Sending you the blues.

Aaaaah Santorini

This about sums it up!

Bummer...

I can understand the skiing part... And quite frankly I don't care much about grass growing on my summer holiday ;) what a lovely day!

Have hog...

will travel... Ok maybe more like a piglet.

Santorini

Greece

Finally... Summer! First day and first sunburn, now that's summer holiday.




Athens is a real surprise, a lot more happening than I expected. Anywhere, where one can have a cocktail on a rooftop bar at midnight in short sleeves can't be bad. Ok, so they haven't mastered the mojito... You can't have everything.








Tomorrow the islands. Sending you sunshine wishes.

Vaux le Vicomte

more to come...

La Suisse

Popped sort of into Switzerland today, and met...

a future Lindt employee, who was hanging out at almost 1700 m, near the...

great wall of Switzerland. Up there there is also a large white ball, making up the Dole weather station.

Beautiful view over lac Leman with the Mont Blanc. Not often you can stand in one country, look straight across another one and then over the one you're in and probably bits n bobs of a third.

Worth the uphill.

Fowlers

Just because one has to wonder at how amazing these little things are...

Hope summer is being good to you.