MYKONOS - WERE TRAPPED

The Day we were supposed to leave

The usual – wake up call at 6am, pack my suitcase in the morning, rush downstairs to have breakfast when there’s a bloody cat trying to jump you and of course dragging my suitcase down a flight of stairs and across reception followed by another 2 flights of stairs just to catch a taxi to go to the port. The plan is Santorini here we come.

The Port

We arrive at the port only to look confused when we notice that there are no people around and no boat to be seen. We question whether we are at the wrong port. There are 2 ports on the island – the new and the old port. We gather it must be the new port. We stand there like lunatics trying to find out what the hell is going on. While parading around the port with suitcases the only people to be seen in sight are actually 3 dogs.

Finally I leave my suitcase and head over to the travel agency across the road from the port. I enter in hope of finding out where we should be. I ask the woman at the reception and she kindly informs me

“All ferries have been cancelled due to bad weather conditions”. It’s at this moment I realise we are screwed!

Walking back to the port I break the news to my friends including the 3 dogs surrounding my suitcase. We spend the next 5 minutes panicking and thinking what the hell are we going to do. It’s at this moment that we realise we have nowhere to sleep tonight. I think the dogs get excited at the fact we might keep them company tonight.

In fear of sleeping on the streets we quickly head to the hotel information office and book the first room we find. We leave a deposit and rush out to go collect our key. On the way I suggest that we contact our tour company and speak to them. We settle outside a phone booth while I make the call.

The Call

The tour woman has no idea what the hell is going on. She doesn’t realise that all ferries have been cancelled. So she tells me to go back to the hotel we were standing at and check back in. They will fix up the accommodation and get back to us.

The next thing was to go back to the tourist office and cancel our room booking and manage to get our deposit back. After throwing a good story the deposit is ours. I think a few tears here and there would have helped. This was such a tease. Booking and then cancelling accommodation. Seriously who does that?

Still under the influence of the motion sickness tablets we took we decided to head back to the hotel but not before meeting the New Zealand couple, which were sitting on a bench playing cards. They informed us that the weather only turned bad three days ago. Aka the day we arrived…… interesting! Coincidence? I don't think so...

We cab it to the hotel just in time. We reclaim our previous room. Its massive group hugs when we realise we saved our VODKA bottle. We decided not to take the bottle with us to Santorini so we left it in the hotel room. This meant another drunken night. Oh god!

After the mess we got ourselves into we couldn’t believe we were stuck here. Comments were flying everywhere. No one wanted to go back to the Skandinavian bar but where else was there to go? At one stage I screamed “I’m having sex tonight”.

Chrissy & the call

Then this lead into a phone call to Chrissy. Leaving an abusive message on her voice mail. I think the exact words were:

“You suck. Were trapped on this island because of you. All ferries have been cancelled. You cursed us. This is your fault. I’m never going to forgive you. Show us your tits”.

Right seems like we have issues with Chrissy!

After this stress relief exercise we headed back to the 24-hour café that wasn’t 24 hours. I seriously don’t understand why we kept going to this café, as the coffee was real bad. The food wasn’t that appealing as well. Just for the record we did see “J” again sitting at the café.

The abusive exchange woman

The next stop was the exchange woman. We thought since being stuck on this island we might as well take a day tour around the island. We walk into her office and ask her for day tours. She throws a big tantrum and tells us off. She apparently told us yesterday that all tours depart at 9am. For crying out loud woman obviously we would have come at 9am if we weren’t supposed to leave the island. After her telling us off we decided to head to the beach again.

We caught a bus to Ornos. I think we spent about an hour here just taking pictures and video camering random things. At one stage we filmed a small documentary on how our trip was going...


The Taxi Tease

While waiting at the bus stop, this woman jumps into a cab and then yells out at us:

“Are you going to Mykonos city centre?" Before we could even answer her she slams the cab door on us and drives off.

We were in shock as to what the hell that was about. Who stands there asking you if you are going to the city centre and slams a taxi door on you? Here we are thinking she probably wants to split the taxi fair with us and then she slams a door on us. What type of an inconsiderate person teases us like that? We could have gone back to town earlier. Instead we had to wait for the bloody bus. Stupid tourist!

The after beach

Arrived back into the city centre for more pita rolls and shopping. Along the way we manage to track our mate Pedros. The cutie is strolling around outside Nikos. This Turkish guy who works at the restaurant tells off poor Pedros. The Turkish guy screams his head because Pedros was trying to steal food from the restaurant. Next thing you know Pedros manages to go hide in the restaurant kitchen. Meanwhile I got the whole thing on tape. Sorry Pedros! It was too good to stop recording...

The Menu gropper

We decide to keep walking around where we spot this restaurant hidden in the back of the island filled with people. My friend runs up the stairs to look at the menu in hope of having dinner here tonight. Next thing you know she gets grabbed by one of the waiters. While I’m laughing my head off I manage to capture the whole incident on tape. I’m sure I can use this against her some day.

Just when you thought it couldn’t get worst the whole $40 woman thing happened with her “No Money” business. This then lead into us discovering the constipated woman and also the crazy hat woman. I don’t think I can even explain them but we managed to go back and film them on camera so we can laugh at them later on.

After what we have been through it was time to head to an Internet café. We had to tell people what was happening. This was the stupidest idea we have ever had on the island. We spent $20 between us using the Internet for an hour. What the hell were we thinking?

Heading back to the hotel for a long shower and a siesta.

Another night on Mykonos was what was to come. Oh F***!!!