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Sooo SAD to see what happened for the amazing beaches around the island... :( ! Visited there and stayed at hotel Petinos in Platis Yalos 1981! In this hotel we could see Elisabet Taylor on a breakfast and Roger Moore had visited some weeks before... That time these beaches were not build FULL of amusements, bars and others we now can find everywhere in this Globe! THEN awesome natural white sandy beaches to enjoy ...now seems just beds under the umbrellas....sigh! Am very happy to remember and see that the town in Myconos still about the same and the windmills...
1972 we could take small motor boats from beach to beach from Plati Yalo to Paradise to Super Paradise to Hellas and to the town for one dollar. We slept on the beach in our sleeping bags. 35 drakmas to the dollar. An omelet was one half cent.
Your video is very, very good, well shot and carefully edited and truly captures the vibrant summer life, the unique beaches and the ambience of this island. However, it is a very sad and disappointing thing to know that Mykonos, once the island selected by authors, painters, sculptors and people aiming to experience the natural beauty of this island that was a rather poor stronghold for pirates for centuries has now become a place where prostitution, drugs, alcoholism, rudeness and complete disrespect of almost any lawful behavior rules. Hotels, restaurants, beach bars and cafeterias charge exorbitant prices (usually without issuing any receipt), they employ young Greeks or illegal immigrants at monthly wages below (sometimes way below) the minimum wage, without any social security compensations and having them work 12-14 hour shifts 7 days per week treating them like slaves,, while beach bars and hotels occupy beaches charging ridiculously high prices for an umbrella and two chaise longues, forbidding people who are not willing to use them and pay for them from swimming in the beach (by Greek law all beaches are public and freely accessible to everybody). Much of the tourist economy of the island is in the hands of the Russian mafia and its oligarchs much of the supply of food, equipment and fuel a part of the building business is ruled by the Albanian mafia. Corruption runs high, as you can open any sort of shop almost anywhere if you have "the right connections" and you can build whatever you wish or can afford without feeling restricted by any building permits, Greek laws on the use of land or any public space demarcation. Local Mykonians, once happy and proud of their island, are questioning whether they are going to have the means to keep their properties on the island, are more and more threatened by the shady people that make Mykonos their summer residence and by the myriads of people landing on their island in the summer, as tourists seeing Mykonos as the paradise for heavy drugs, easy free and paid sex, wild partying and a chance to engage in any sort of extreme, unhinged nightlife "entertainment" of all sorts. Mykonos was recently characterized as the "Colombia of the Mediterranean Sea", if that adds a layer of description to the fast, sad and possibly irreversible disintegration of this very beautiful island. What a shameful waste!
The twelve Best Beaches in Mykonos: 1. Lia 2. Agrari 3. Elia 4. Panormos 5. Kalo Livadi 6. Agia Anna 7. Kalafatis 8. Agios Sostis 9. Psarou 10. Paranga 11. Ornos 12. Agios Giannis From the best 12 you included only 2. LOL
