This is Syros, the most populated of the Greek Islands with around 20,000 permanent residents. We had just enough time here for a quick wander around the main town of Ermoupoli and to get some good Greek grub for dinner.

Mykonos is the most visited and most expensive of the islands, and the most cosmopolitan too with an awesome night life, great beaches and shopping, and is a popular destination for gay travellers (of which we saw plenty). A lot of celebrities own houses here too. Because of the fiasco with the ferries we only had one full day on Mykonos, so we hired another quad bike to tear around on, and made up for it with a big night out on the town that I only vaguely remember (though I do remember the 90-minute walk back to the hotel from town at 5am!).

Mykonos had the nicest beaches of the three islands we visited. This is Paradise Beach with bars and chillout music to relax to. It gets really busy here as night falls. A little further away is Super Paradise Beach which is a nudist beach. I did go for a look but it was all old men - always the way!

This is the beach right behind our hotel - nice! This was the morning after the night before and I was very hung-over and nauseated hehe, so the water felt great!

It's a hard life :)

This part of Mykonos is known as Little Venice. Quite appropriate if you've wandered around Venice.

All of the islands have these iconic windmills that don't actually serve any purpose these days, though I assume they did at some point.

This is Houlakia Beach on the northwest of the island. I took a stone from here and later found out it is prohibited to do so. The stones found along this beach are unique to Mykonos, and stones with the composite colours and size of these can't be found anywhere else. This is a really quiet beach, away from main roads and the crowds of people, and is also a great place to watch the sunset. If the quad bike didn't have to be back by 6 o'clock I would've stayed around for it - it was so nice here!

These t-shirts were for sale somewhere in the middle of town hahaha!