Bring a LOT of money. Have you checked current room prices and compared them to 36 years ago? How does a 1000% strike you?

Maybe my old farmhouse digs are still available. When I moved in there was no electricity and the water for the shower was heated by the sun in a barrel on the roof. If they haven't improved the property too much I bet I can swing a good deal.

Unrealistic optimism will only bring disappointment. What makes you think the owner of the "farmhouse digs" would preserve a 36-year-old status quo when there's 10 times (or more) the money to be made by upgrading? This is Mykonos you're talking about, not some sheepherder's hut on a remote mountaintop in Central Greece. Chances are that farmhouse now has a swimming pool, internet access, jacuzzi tub and satellite TV!

All the better! Actually, I was just kidding. It's my idea of irony. Sometimes it just doesn't communicate.

And I'm a bit thick.........

I have been reading your back posts and find you quite savvy and helpful.

Hotpoet NOTHING is what it was 36 years ago including you. It will break your heart to look in your photo album from 1972 and then look in the mirror today.

If you go back and are distressed that Mykonos has changed, think about it -- So have you. You make more money now, but you don't look the same either.

In 1972, Mykonos people lived very simply because that is all they could afford. Then people with more money came there and were willing to pay more. Now the local people can put in bathrooms and a/c and have menus in their tavernas and charge more. They can send their kids to college in Athens. Things change. that's life.

Hi travelerjan
I have no illusions about that. I have changed in so many ways beyond the physical sometimes I am amazed. I do not begrudge anyone anything. I think everyone deserves a prosperous lifestyle especially if one is as smart and hardworking as the Mykonians. Mykonos will always have a special place in my heart and mind. I have friends from high school who I feel the same way about but sometimes in present time when you meet again all you have in common is the past.
I have no expectations of present day Mykonos other than to be a fun comfortable vacation destination that appeals to my sense of aesthetics. I also have more $ now than I did then. I am more demanding than I was then. I am not going there because I want an American experience or I insist on having my Starbucks in the morning. Ohmigod! I just remember how I used to mix packets of Nescafe and sugar and mix mix mix so that when we slowly poured in the water you would get a froth. I am a small pleasures kind of gal. I enjoyed going into the kitchen. There was a family feel to it all. I liked that.
FYI I look fantastic for a woman my age. It is only when I look at the scale, not in the mirror, that I want to cry.

Kalimera,
I prefer to answer your more personal questions (involving other people) when you use this address:
harvey at internet dot lu

G.

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