Ios Island

Ios Island, situated between Santorini and Naxos Island, is another small populated Island with a population a little over 2,000.  Two movies have been filmed there, Ginger and Cinnamon and scenes in The Big Blue.

Beautiful Beaches

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And an ancient archeological fortress, that is from 2,700 to 2,300 B.C.

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Folegandros Island

Up from Santorini you will find Folegandros, a hidden gem of an Island, just a 45 minute ferry ride from Santorini.  It is a great getaway in combination with Santorini, fly into Santorini spend a few days there and then hop over to Folegandros for a few days.

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The "chora", the name of pretty much every main village on the islands is built on the cliffs of the Island.
This Island has only a little over 650 locals and no bank or tourist office so make sure you have plenty of cash and free time to enjoy a relaxing and quiet Island. 

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Some of the beaches are hard to get too, so if walking wear a really good pair of shoes, rent a buggy or have a boat take you to a few of the harder to get to beautiful beaches.

Santorini Island

I have talked about Santorini here and shared a few pictures here and here.

It is located at the bottom of the Cyclades Island group.

This video shows some of the cave bars and beautiful beaches.

Video source YouTube, this is not me.

How is your Anchors Aweigh Quilt going?

Milos Island

Milos is the lowest southwestern Island of the Cyclades.  Below Serifos and Sifnos.

Milos is best known for Venus de Milo a statue of Aphrodite in the Lovre Museum in Paris.

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But what it should be known for is it's beaches and surrounding colorful waters.

source, Is that your boat anchored there?  I wish it was mine!

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Don't these waters make you want to just run and play and swim all day, ahh..laa..  Is it summer time yet.  Many of the websites say that April and May are a good time to visit, and being closer to Crete and therefor probably getting warmer weather earlier than the more northern Islands, then maybe this is true.  April is just around the corner, anyone ready to dip there feet in?

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Serifos and Sifnos Islands

Serifos and Sifnos just below Kithnos, 2 not overly populated islands, 1,400 and 2,600 respectively.  They both have mining in their histories, Serifos in Iron-Ore and Sifnos in gold, silver and lead, making them very wealthy in ancient times, it has been inhabited since 4,000 BC.  But the metals ran out on both Islands so making a living on them has resorted to tourism and agriculture.

A Church on Serifos

 Beautiful, Remote Sifnos one of the first places in Greece to mint coins, 600 BC.

Sifnos, Bay of Kamares

note the 2 pictures are taken from Wikipedia, the links to Wikipedia can be found in the first sentence.

Kithnos Island

Cyclades Islands

Today we are visiting Kithnos or sometimes spelled Kythnos, located just below Kea.

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 With more than 70 beaches there are plenty of places for a person to relax and maybe enjoy some ouzo or a cold Frappe.
Kithnos is truly amazing in that it has on of the oldest known habitations in the Cycladic islands, they have found human skeletons and stone artifacts dating back 12,000 - 14,000 years ago, WOW.
In 1983 it became Greece’s first place for a wind park.
And then in 2002 (not very long ago at all) they discovered an intact and un-plundered Temple, that was filled with over 1,400 artifacts,  including precious jewels, gold and silver.  An amazing find considering that the Islands were attacked by Pirates and Marauders for centuries and no one found this 2,700 year old Temple to Hera.

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Wouldn't you like to moor your boat here and spend a few leisurely hours walking around and perhaps finding your own hidden temple.