Exploring the Cyclades

From the port of Piraeus it was a five-hour ferry ride south-east to Paros island, in the Cyclades group, which was to become my home base for the next month. Not being the type of person to rush around taking photos of all the major landmarks and claiming that I had seen a place, I chose rather to do things slightly differently and really see Greece, from what would hopefully be a local’s perspective. My plan was to settle down in one town for most of my stay, then mix in a bit of island hopping at the end to give me the tourist’s perspective of Greece.