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Mykonos town, Little Venice.

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Expensive and crowded? Well, yes. But mostly expensive if you choose to eat or drink in places like those pictured above. Move a few metres inland to a place without a view and you'll get the same deal at one tenth of the price. And for the hard-up traveller there's always pork in pitta bread with salad and a cold beer for €3, as on any island in Greece.

Crowded? Yes, it deserves to be crowded, like Paris or London. That's what happens to the best places. But you should still see it, and you can always go out of high season [that's July/Aug if you haven't read the Greece Travel Guide].

Most Greek islands have a main town with the same name as the island, so to avoid confusion that town - as in Mykonos - is generally known as 'Hora.' [Sometimes Chora]. Most Horas feature narrow, winding streets and predominantly white and blue painted buildings, but Mykonos' is bigger and better preserved.

Inland is also finer than most other islands, with dry stone walls and many finely, organically styled homes. The only feature inferior to other islands is the beaches, which are either packed with fine sand and coarse people [e.g. Platys Gialos] or coarse sand and fine people [e.g. Super Paradise].

A short distance offshore is tiny Delos island, a World Heritage site packed with stunning archeological remains. There is no accommodation there so day trips run there from a small pier aqround the corner from Little Venice.

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