Ios

We arrived on Ios after our short ferry ride from Paros and quickly got settled in our hotel in Hora, also known as the village and just a short drive up a hill from the town at the port. Once settled in we went to explore the town and grab some food. We were delighted to find that the streets in this town were just as small and narrow as those on Paros so it made it so nice to wander through the town. After enjoying dinner in a small restaurant we returned to our hotel to start enjoying the night life on Ios. Ios is known as one of the party islands in the Greek islands and the small square in the heart of Hora is almost completely surrounded with nightclubs so Lianne and I went out that night to enjoy some of them.

The next day we awoke late after our late night the night before and went to find some breakfast in the town. After breakfast we made our way down to Mylopotas which is one of the nicest, and also the easiest accessible, beach on Ios. We spent the afternoon relaxing on the rocky sand and enjoying the water before returning to Hora in the evening where Lianne went shopping while I used the internet before our dinner. Again after a really enjoyable meal we returned to the hotel where we planned to start off our night for another big night of partying. Unfortunately we were both kind of drained from the previous evening so we didn't make it very far tonight and instead just had an "early" night.

We had originally only planned on spending 2 nights on Ios but because of our uneventful night the second night we decided to stay for a third. Our second full day on the island was much the same as the previous one as spent most of the day on Mylopotas beach before returning to Hora in the late afternoon to organize ferry tickets to Santorini the following day. Again that evening we enjoyed a late meal and went straight our to a bar after to start our night out which we again thoroughly enjoyed.

The next morning we hauled ourselves out of bed and packed up to make it down to the ferry port for our mid morning ferry out to Santorini. So our adventures on Santorini to follow soon.










The view of the ferry port and out to sea from our balcony at the hotel.

















Lianne on our balcony with the sunset behind her.