Yesterdays BOTD was Mylos. You can reach Mylos a few ways:

• By boat
• By foot

From the pedestrian area where our hotel located is in Agios Nikitas, there’s a narrow dirt path that takes you up and over the mountain to the Mylos beach.

A 15-20 min hike in “feels like 101 degrees”heat gave us this view:

Upon reaching the shore, we immediately threw our things down at the nearest sun-bed/umbrella combo and ran into the sea. Clear blue water, sand, and while there are pebbles leading to the beach, for some reason these don’t hurt to walk on.

The fish found a small cut on Paul’s leg and proceeded to nibble on him for brunch.

Boat loads of people got dropped off at the beach, 20 at a time, but it never felt crowded.

There was a man walking the beach selling spinach and cheese pies and an assortment of pastries and drinks. Everything looked delicious, but we had just ordered ham and cheese sandwiches from the one stand at the top of a sand dune.

It amazes me that there is absolutely nothing in the water or on the beach. No seaweed. No trash. No plastic. I saw a cigarette butt yesterday for the first time. I’ve noticed less people smoking in Greece although there are ashtrays everywhere; lots of vaping including parents sitting at the dinner table with their kids.

As the day grew longer, the sand and rocks were painfully hot to walk on requiring that we wear our shoes down to the shore.

After four hours I hiked back over the mountain, returning to the hotel to work the rest of the day/night. Paul and Damian hung out a little longer and eventually trekked back and went straight to the hotel pool.

Since I had to work this evening, the boys brought me a chicken souvlaki and then later returned to the same spot for pork gyros: D’s in a sandwich pita and Paul’s in a deconstructed “Portion” as the Greeks call it.

After dinner, the boys took a walk and ended up sitting by the beach which they remarked that even later at the night, the water here is special.