September 18, 2019, Mykonos
Our dinner would be at the town’s center at 7 pm. Instead of riding on the shuttle bus at 6:30 pm from the hotel, Edmund and I rented the hotel’s van an hour earlier at 5:30 pm.
The sky and water are too blue here in Mykonos.
At almost 6 pm, the sun was no longer as intense and it was so much nicer to walk.
I wanted to go shopping. I hoped to find a cute blouse or a dress or two because I was running out of clothes to wear. The tourist guide warned us that prices here are expensive. Syempre presyong turista.
Ice cream is good here.
The architectural style of the buildings are all the same. They are simple, maximum of two stories, all painted white. There is an effort to maintain the traditional Cycladic style.
This blue door speaks to me in many forms. Blue will always be my favorite color, no matter what the shade is. The white painted wall is very me. Our main residence is painted white. White is the color of perfection. It’s my favorite next to blue. The two rectangular design on the lower part of the door is exactly the same as the rectangular design on our front door here in Quezon City. I copied it actually from a photo of a door in Paris. The bougainvillea (bogambilya in Tagalog!!) adds romance to the door. The pink flowers provide a girly touch to the masculine door. It evokes a feeling of welcomeness. Come in!
The shops and restaurants in this town are so uniquely charming.
The back part of the shops have very narrow alley.
I found a white and blue linen dress for Euro 99. They gave me Euro 10 discount but when I was paying in cash, they gave me an additional Euro 3 off.
You know when a town is booming when there are shops and restaurants in the oddest of places and yet people go.
I’ve seen this Louis Vuitton shop the day before but we had no time to stop and look. I told my husband I would come back during our free time. Baka kako mas mura because of the VAT refund.
And I did. I took my time taking pictures outside. It’s so tiny.
As soon as I stepped in, someone called me “Annie!” Aha! some of my tourmates were inside, occupying the only sofa. They shopped already for a bag and something else. They looked for Edmund. As soon as Edmund went inside the store,
our friends left. Edmund plunked down on the same sofa while I looked at bags. Humiga pa halos. The sales ladies didn’t mind him and they were in fact very friendly to him. Edmund discovered why they were so nice to us after our tourmates posted their group photo, seconds ago, they were all carrying Louis Vuitton shopping bags. All seven of them. Yun pala. They all bought something from this store. Kung anu-ano. The photo is so cute but I don’t want to post it. Para silang mga models ng LV.
There was a young Chinese couple buying a bag but the sales lady was looking for their original passport. The couple only has photos on their cellphone. I put down the bag I was holding. I told my husband “let’s go, they require the original passport, not a photo.” The store manager approached me and asked if I had bought from any of the LV stores in Europe. I said yes. She looked at my name on their files and she found it. It even has the list of the items and the specific stores. They have a very good database. The US files are separate.
We had to stop our shopping and discovery of cute made in Greece items. It was time for dinner. I was able to buy one white cotton blouse (Euro 49), one white cotton dress with blue embroideries, and one off-white lace dress with green patches (Euro 99 less 50% off = Euro 49.50), all made in Greece. That’s what the sales ladies told me.
The white and blue I realized I already have something very similar or exactly the same, which I had bought in the US some two years ago. Saan na kaya yun?
