Milos

If you do want to pair Rhodes with some other islands during season, it is possible.

If you kind of look at Aegean or Sky Express and see... what islands they pair with certain days of the week, because there was one time I flew from Rhodes to Milos, so I had an easy flight there.

And just recently, Tara flew from Mykonos to Rhodes.

You can also fly from Rhodes to Heraklion in Crete.

So Rhodes is one of the islands that has really good connections within other Greek islands and also Athens and Thessaloniki.

But yes, basically it has really many flights from Heraklion grid as well as Chania in grid.

And then there are also some weekly flights from Santorini, Mykonos, as well as Milos as well.

So, yeah, travelers can easily combine roads with some of Greece's most popular destinations and create like a diversity.

The Melians don't open their doors and accept Athenian hegemony.

The Athenians are really just asking the Melians to let them maybe put up a base, work out at Milos, pay a tribute, join the Athenian imperial sort of network.

They're not initially demanding the Melians leave Milos or sign up for enslavement or something like that.

They probably could get away with just a hefty tribute and a formal treaty.

But they don't even do that.

So Priya sells the Greek islands.

Last spring, she posted a three-part carousel series called Which Greek Island Fits Your Travel Style? So we got Santorini for the views, Naxos for the food, Milos for the beaches.

It got more saves than anything she had ever posted.

11 people sent her a message.

There's not infinite permutations there.

But the three critical variables we can extrapolate from Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War is the siege of Milos and the destruction of the Mileans as a people.

And the Milean dialogues, the Milean dialogue, which I'm sure is familiar to people who know the source material.

That's the reason why it looms so large in the book.

Yeah.

We were in Milos, Greece.

We were wanderlusting hard.

[laughs] Um, with our interview with Steven, but that was an awesome chat, so you can go check that out.

A country looking for primacy hates neutrality.

Like the Athenians hated the neutrality of Milos in the Peloponnesian War.

The United States rejected neutrality in Europe.

during the rejected neutrality of Germany after World War II.

And I've talked so much about it in my previous podcast episodes.

Now, when it comes to data on Milos, it definitely supports what I've seen on Instagram.

This year, Hopper, the helicopter booking platform, reported that Milos was the third most searched Greek island among its U.S. users.

and ferry booking platform FerryScanner placed Milos alongside Paros, Naxos, Mykonos and Santorini among the Cycladic Islands receiving the most early bookings from abroad.

Now the hotel scene is changing as well.

We're seeing a lot of new investment in high-end properties, including from a hospitality group that is already well established on Paros and Santorini.

And of course, I will make sure to leave you the link to the concierge service of my fabulous Vita travel agency, as well as stories and experiences from travelers who've already explored Greece, Italy, and France with us in the description down below.

Now, to wrap up this episode, my three predictions for 2027 are clear.

You can let your eyes close whenever they wish, because we'll move slowly enough for the landscape to remain beside you.

Sarakiniko lies along the northern shore of Milos, where low white ridges meet water so clear that the submerged stone seems close enough to touch.

The cliffs don't rise as sharp walls, but gather in folds, ledges, shallow bowls, and long smooth backs.

Beneath your fingertips, the surface feels dry and faintly powdery, though the sea waits only a few steps away, moving with a patient hush.

Far below, water folds against the inlet, and the sound returns from the white walls slightly softened, as if the cliffs have learned to hold every echo gently.

Before the first curve was carved, before wind could wander through these hollows, the island itself had to rise from a restless geological setting beneath the Aegean.

Milos belongs to a broad volcanic arc formed where great portions of Earth's outer shell have been moving together for millions of years.

Deep below the islands, one plate descends beneath another, and heat alters the buried material until molten rock can rise through fractures.