Milos

The French won't give it back to the Greeks.

This is the Temple of Hephaestus. We called it half-assed temple, which it definitely is not. Built in 450 BC, it is the best preserved (intact) ancient Greek temple in the world.

Temple of Dionysis on Naxos

Many little harbors on Milos.

More beach time.

More pics from Greece

This swim spot (Koufonissia) had an underwater tunnel connecting the two pools. Molly went under, I was too chicken.

This is an ancient Koros - an unfinished statue which is carved out of marble, then raised. This one is over 10 meters long and old...very old - 1000 BC or so. And yes, you can touch it.

Temple of Olympian Zeus. I'm small...it's huge.

And no... you can't touch this.

This is Naxos. Hot and humid Naxos. The sunsets were great and there was a lot of variety on this island - history, a beautiful region of villages, a labyrintheen main town and some good beaches.

The Parthenon - getting some cleaning and preservation.










Santorini - good thing we got there before it became grid-locked with tourists. 2.5 days was enough.






See that little blue box by Molly? That's the smallest church in the world.
















Ahhh ...Milos. I have never seen so many colors of rock...and water.

The beaches were pretty amazing. The water was warm and clear -cool at the beginnning of the trip, then almost too warm by the time we left. The further from the taverna, the fewer the clothes.











I drove to this beach by
myself one afternoon.
A windy road down to
Plathiena beach.
Nobody was
here. "Am I really in Greece!?"












A labyrinth of passage ways in
most of the main towns
made it fun to get lost.

Molly never stopped smiling.
























On Koufonissia we found our little paradise. We stayed here all day. We had to swim to this spot, then drop our stuff down from the trail.