Parikia, Paros

It was a short trip from Milos to Paros, so we stopped twice to swim and snorkel. The water is about the clearest blue I've ever seen and that's saying something. There's not a lot of fish to see. And the ones I saw were not colorful and were pretty small. I did see a very small flounder though.

Wow. What a difference. Parikia, the main town in Paros, is the most beautiful Greek town we've been in so far on this trip. And that might have something to do with the Venetians who ruled here during the crusades and had lots of money from all their looting and trading.

We found an excellent restaurant and ordered sea bass and a traditional dried mackerel. It might not sound good by my description but it was delicious.

This is one of those island cities that is just fun to wander around and get lost in. There's narrow lanes and lots of beautiful flowers. All the buildings are white and the shutters and church roofs are blue. It's what people think of when they think "Greek Island."

It's the end of the high season so it's busy but not quite as busy as I expected. A lot of Southern Europeans take the whole month of August off and now we're at August 30, so I think a fair amount of people are headed back to home and work.

We only had a few hours last night to see the island and an hour this morning to visit a museum. We wish we had more time on each island but this is a small sacrifice to pay for the opportunity to sail around the Cyclades.

Paros is known for its pink marble from a quarry in the middle of the island. I read about and saw many Parian marble statues at the museum in Delphi. The French used this Parian marble for Napoleon's tomb in Paris. We saw that amazing tomb on a visit there at the Hospital de Invalides.

Mykonos is only about 4 hours to our North and that's where we're heading now.

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