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Mykonos, Shirley Valentine’s Island

Mykonos Windmills

One of my favourite films is Shirley Valentine, the story of a woman who has a life changing experience when she goes on an unexpected holiday to the island of Mykonos so I suppose that it was inevitable that I would have to travel there one day.

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Little Venice Mykonos

Little Venice

Little Venice

Little Venice is one of the most attractive and picturesque parts of Mykonos Town and one of the prettiest places in the Cyclades.  Its charming two and three storey houses with colourful balconies, windows and doors; built precariously right on the sea, form a unique picture.  It is almost as iconic an image of the Cyclades as are Santorini’s sugar cubed houses and blue domed churches and is among the most photographed tourist destinations in the whole of Greece.

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