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Unlike many Greek islands during the summer, you actually get to hear Greek spoken primarily! Sifnos is a pretty, comfortable and touristed island and favored mostly by well to do Greeks. Nightlife is emphasized here, and if that’s not your thing, eating is consistently an amazing experience. I didn’t have a mediocre meal once, and I’m fussy. Check out the breathtakingly situated bar in Castro run by a former sociology professor with a leaning towards the politics of his namesake.

…Even in summer! I never understood the beauty of beaches that did not have the function of frolicking in the sun and sand until I went to Acadia Nat’l Park.

This place is where people were sent by the Ancients to live out their days forgotten and in shame, on a rock in the sea.

It’s a barren, windy place that in the summer months at least, is lively and a great place to get a tan. Inevitably, every year there is at least one disappearance of a tourist— someone who wandered off one of the many donkey paths and fell meters and meters down to their death on the rocks below…

In spite of that, there are great hikes, and there really is a spiritual component that you don’t usually find on many of the more touristed Greek islands.