Mykonos Island, Greece

Myknos is a cool place. I highly recommend it. Windmills that date back to the 1500s. Great beaches, complete with old style wooden boats to take you there. Crazy night life in the main town. There is a place in the main town called "Little Venice" with great views over the bay and lots of bars that lean toward alternative lifestyles, as a politically correct Canadian might put it in a blog post. There are lots of museums: an archeological museum that explains lots about the pre-history of the area and with lots of artifacts from all over the Mediterranean.

You can also take a 2 kilometre boat ride over to the small isand of Delos, one of Greece's most famous archaeologic sites. It was at one time a large, cosmopolitan commercial port, the largest in the in the Mediteranean). It's now abandoned (well , except for tourists and archeologists) and is on the UNESCO World Heritage site list.

According to Greek mythology, Apollo was born on the island in the Cyclades archipelago. Apollo's sanctuary attracted pilgrims from all over Greece. The island bears traces of the succeeding civilizations in the Aegean world, from the 3rd millennium B.C. to the early Christian era.

Delos had a position as a holy sanctuary for a thousand years before Greek mythology made it the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis.

We checked out The Terrace of the Lions, dedicated to Apollo by the people of Naxos ( a neighbouring island in the Cyclades) shortly before 600 BC, had originally nine to twelve squatting, snarling marble guardian lions along the Sacred Way. The lions create a monumental avenue comparable to Egyptian avenues of sphinxes. You can see reproductions of the lions on site in Delos, and the originals are dsispalyed inside, in the island's museum.