Marvelous Milos, Greece, September 19th-30th, 2026!

We recently returned from our 3^rd trip to marvelous Milos (yes, where the Venus was discovered, the same statue that lies in the Louvre).  Milos is one of the world’s most beautiful islands, so they say.  It was for me trip no. 11 to Greece and so far to 18 different islands.

Their magnificent archeological museum which we had visited yrs ago.

We stayed a nite in wonderful Athens.  It’s  the 3^rd or 4^th time that we visit that city of 5 million people with its majestic Acropolis (our hotel was near the Plaka). The  Athenians we met were very nice, as are 99% of the islanders we ran into on this trip.  And Athens’s handy metro takes you from the airport straight to their main stop/square, Syntagma, which is right in front of the Greek Parliament (you can also take in the unique ceremony of the changing of the guard).  It’s about a 40 minute trip.  Our Hotel Arethusa was also just nearby.

 
That metro line is VERY convenient as it’ll also take you in about 30 minutes to the city’s main port, Piraeus (or Pirea).  We took a ferryboat to Milos, a 3 1/2 hour boat ride (luckily no choppy waters going there but on the way back to Piraeus we were rolling a wee bit).

The island of Sifnos, not too far from Milos.

 
We booked a place in a studio where we had been on our 2^nd trip to Milos, the Anamnisi Studio in Adamas.  It was sort of like going back home for us, rather close to the city center and VERY clean (they passed by to clean our room every 2 days) and rather quiet too.  We choose studios because we can do our own cooking.  Not only do you save big bucks but, and no offence to my Greek friends, I can only handle so many days of Moussakà, Souvlaki and also French Fries!   But what we did do was to indulge a LOT in their great Mythos beer!

 
For 35 euros a day we rented a Kia car (from www.miloscars-gr) and covered about 350 km around the island.  As it was late September it wasn’t that hot nor that cool, a perfect temperature I must say.  And the beaches?  Still a wee bit crowded with lots of Aussies (they had their two-week break back in Australia) and fellow Canucks, many also from Québec (‘twas indeed a pleasure to talk to them en français).  There were also Americans and while talking to them (all of them very nice by the way) we got on the subject of Cda-U.S. relations under the modern-day "Dr. No", aka Trump! 

The lovely Plaka in Milos.

 

About the only negative point this time about Milos was the cost of 2 sun-beds and an overhead umbrella which ran as high as 40 euros (98% those sun-beds were usually empty).  What we and many other tourists did was to simply lie on our beach towels and directly on the sand, thus saving those 40 euros.

 
Good to see the old stomping grounds and also some good friends, such as Ianis and Anezina (both darlings by the way) whom we met during our 2 previous trips to Milos.  Magnificent their wonderful and precious churches and some of their GREAT pastry shops! And the chess aficionados that we are we also got to play some games on two large garden chessboards.  Too funny as one day I actually helped a young lassie from Québec to checkmate her boyfriend…who wasn’t at all happy that he had lost!  

We left with a touch of sadness for Piraeus and for another overnight stay in the same hotel in Athens.  A beautiful rooftop view of the Acropolis and off we headed the day after for the airport and our September 30^th flight back to Rome (it’s only a 90-minute flight), and on the very same day of the FlyDubai incident.

 
And the next trip to Greece?  I’d like to spend a few more days to explore the country’s rather interesting capital and why not, also island no. 19?

Our rather lovely studio in Milos.

The view from our hotel of the Acropolis, rather majestic I must say.

 
(All pics taken with the Fuji Fine Pix XP 140 waterproof camera).

P.S.  And mille grazie once again to our travel agent Stefano (at the "Grecia Mondo" agency here in Rome) who once again organised for us a great trip to Greece!