Mykonos, Greece: A Photoessay

I bought this floral print shirt at a shop in town for a night out at the clubs. Truth be told, my husband and I only made it out until 11:30, which is much too early for the scene. Things don’t get going until 1 or 2 in the morning, and on the morning of our departure, around 6:30, we saw a parade of hotel guests stumbling home.

This is one of several big group dinners in town, here at Nikos’ Taverna which is a popular place for traditional Greek specialties.

We hiked around the Fanari lighthouse on the north coast of the island.

The prevailing sentiment among Mykonos party-goers.

People gather at a square in town, below the windmills, to watch the sunset, and they applaud when the sun disappears under the horizon. ‘Little Venice’ embanks one side of the water.

Wild goats climb down from the rugged, coastal hills to graze in the island’s few grassy fields. I caught a cute, little kid on camera one day.

Greek flags flying at sunset. There was no shortage of wind during our visit, and it tempered the fierce, Mediterranean heat during the day.

We visited the ‘ghost town’ on the way to Tigani beach. These simple homes once housed miners who excavated barite from the coastal mountains.

We took a boat trip around the island, and most of my photos did not come out great (too much wind and movement). But it was a beautiful day. The trip usually includes a visit to the evocatively-named island of Dragonisi, but it was too windy to go there. Oh, and I lost this hat I’m wearing to the Aegean.