Cyclades

Pero ¿a dónde lleva toda esa circunnavegación? Solo a través de peligros innumerables, al mismo punto de donde partimos, donde los que dejamos atrás a salvo han estado todo el tiempo antes que nosotros.

Si este mundo fuera una llanura infinita y navegando hacia el este, pudiéramos alcanzar siempre nuevas distancias y descubrir visiones más dulces y extrañas que ninguna Cícladas o islas del rey Salomón, entonces habría promesa en el viaje.

Pero en la persecución de esos misterios de que soñamos o en el acoso atormentado de ese fantasma demoníaco que una vez u otra nada ante todo corazón humano, lo uno o lo otro, en tal seguimiento por este globo redondo, o nos lleva a laberintos yermos o nos deja sumergidos a medio camino.

El ahí y el gam.

That's a lot of assuming and a lot of assumptions.

But I also find it's the same thing with the Cycladic figurines, like, you know, the little ones, the little naked ladies who are like, kind of look like Easter Island things.

um they always say those are fertility statues and i'm kind of going like is it just because it's a statue that has breasts because 50 of the world has breasts like it's it's kind of an interesting that just that it's a female figurine it therefore equals fertility it's kind of bizarre to me but yeah those little fat ladies um I feel bad calling them that, but they kind of are.

I know, but

Mykonos offers vibrant nightlife and beautiful beaches.

Naxos is the largest of the Cyclades with charming villages and great food.

everything on that page is accurate it's also functionally the same information they already had in their 15 tabs the page lays out six options side by side and steps back they finish reading it with the exact question they arrived with which one should we do and there's nothing on the page that helps them answer it and no obvious next step besides a contact link in the footer so they close the tab and keep researching on their own Now, picture the same advisor, same expertise, but the page works differently.

It opens with something like, most first-time visitors try to see three or four islands in 10 days and spend half the trip on ferries.

Because of the climate, it's very easy to get the grapes dry well under the sun, and they would make and they still make .

Today, in many islands, in many areas, like in the Peloponnese, in northern Greece, in Crete, in the Cyclades Islands, in the Rimini, they still make wine.

Samos, of course, the same way they would make them in the antiquity.

And then when the Romans occupied Greece, they talked about the famous Passum wines from Greece.

I'm on a small island in Mykonos.

Actually, it's the biggest island in the Cyclades, but there's no metal scene.

In Athens, I haven't explored too much.

So I'm pretty much away from it a lot of the time, which does make it hard.

Is there anything that's distinctive to you, that sings to you, that's uniquely Rhodes?

Yes, I think it does have a very different vibe than the Cycladic Islands.

It's not the whitewashed kind of buildings.

It has a more, it has some Eastern influence to it.

How would you say, from your experience, and Adam, you can also answer as well, how does Rhodes pair naturally with the other islands in mainland Greece?

I think that Rhodes and Crete are a good combination and kind of similar type options as well, that each are a little bit different, but kind of have a similar feel that you could easily combine those because they are close together.

But then you could also, if you wanted to do one vibe of this island chain and a vibe of the Cycladic islands, you can do that as well.

And of course, we always love mainland Greece, so you could start or end in Athens too.

And I've just run a retreat.

I ran a pilgrimage where we went to some of the places where it the Zudokos Piggy churches on the small Cycladic Islands and various other places that are associated with this water of life, because it's a big theme in Orthodox churches, also in the Greek, the ancient Greek traditions, as well as this idea of the water of memory or this sort of life giving water.

So I've had this dream that I'm searching for the water of life and I find the water of life in various situations.

It can sometimes be in a pyramid shaped spa i'm very into spas in a zoroastrian fire temple like it could be anything but basically in in some of the dreams i managed to drink the water and when i do it has this curative effect like it's it changes my consciousness i think in a lucid dream because if you drink or eat something lucid dream you anticipate that some sort of change is going to occur it acts as this agent of transformation and we were talking on the last retreat actually about how You know, when I was little, I was very philosophical when I was little and I wanted to know the secret of life or the secret of the universe.

These would be Libyan waters, and then those would be Turkish waters.

Again, this completely cuts out Greek waters off the coast of Crete and the Cyclades, as well as certain Cypriot economic access waters.

And of course, Egypt is obviously going to be directly interfered with from the Libyan perspective here.

So that is... uh this is a major update we've been covering this for a few weeks now whether or not this is going to happen and it has obviously our good buddy chris over the holy wisdom has been covering this We've been discussing how in the next few weeks, potentially December seems most likely, Erdogan will be visiting Libya for the fourth Turkish-African summit, all three of which before Erdogan has attended in person.

After breakfast, we boarded one of the ship's tenders for the short journey ashore.

With the Morella Discovery anchored offshore, the tender was our gateway to exploring one of the most famous and picturesque islands in the Cyclades.

Once ashore, Mandy and I set off to discover the town on foot, and it didn't take long before we found ourselves wandering through Mykonos' famous maze of narrow streets and winding alleyways.

The island certainly lived up to its reputation.