Guide To Milos

ATV rental in Milos is the island's default holiday vehicle for many people, and for good reason. Roughly half the best ...

Every ferry from Athens to Milos, in Greece's western Cyclades, sails from Piraeus, the port town on the city's south-we...

Milos has roughly 70 beaches, scattered around every side of a small, awkwardly shaped island in Greece's western Cyclad...

Adamas is where almost everyone eats on their first and last night on the Greek island of Milos, because it is where the...

Milos, like other notable Greek Cyclades, seems to have an abundance of great food and places to eat. Goat cooked slowly...

Plaka is the smallest island capital in Greece I know that still feels like a village, and its restaurants sit in steppe...

Pollonia is the village on Milos, in the Greek Cyclades, where dinner happens with your feet almost in the sea. A single...

Milos rewards a list more than most Greek islands: its attractions are scattered, and half of them need a boat, a quad o...

The best time to visit Milos, in the Aegean's Cyclades, is September: the sea is still warm, the meltemi wind has usuall...

Hiring a car is the most comfortable way to see Milos, and for most families and longer stays it is the right call. But ...

Firiplaka is a long ribbon of pale sand on the south coast of Milos, in Greece's western Cyclades, backed by multicolour...

Firopotamos is a scrap of sand at the foot of a cliff on the north coast of Milos, one of the Greek Cyclades, hemmed in ...

Milos, a Cycladic island in Greece, is bigger and emptier than it looks on a map, and almost everything worth seeing sit...

Hiking in Milos, as in all the Greek Cyclades, is not about altitude. It is about walking across a landscape that mining...

There are two ways onto Milos: a ferry to Adamas, or a small domestic flight from Athens. The ferry is the right answer ...

The Ios to Milos ferry crossing is a summer seasonal route with high-speed boats, but there can be days with no sailing ...

Milos is a mid-priced Greek island. It costs noticeably less than Santorini or Mykonos, but certainly more than it did b...

Milos is worth visiting if you want a rugged volcanic island with more good beaches than you can fit into a week, and it...

The Kimolos beaches, on a small Greek island beside Milos, divide by coast: sand and shelter in the south, wild empty sw...

Kimolos sits barely a mile off the north-east tip of Milos, yet almost nobody who visits Milos ever sets foot on it. Aro...

Kleftiko is the image that sells Milos. Huge chalk-white rock stacks rise straight out of turquoise Aegean water on the ...

Klima, on the Greek island of Milos, is the village you have already seen. A single row of boat garages painted lemon, t...

Milos has 125 km of Aegean coastline and some of its best stretches have no road to them at all. A boat tour is how you ...

Milos, in the western Cyclades of Greece, has a small local bus network, run KTEL-style, with every service radiating ou...

The Milos catacombs are the largest early-Christian burial complex in Greece, cut into a soft hillside below the village...

Milos island hopping works best when you resist the temptation to add islands. Milos sits in the western Cyclades with e...

Two or three days on the Greek island of Milos gets you the headline sights and not much else. Four or five is where the...

The Greek island of Milos owes almost everything to what is under it. Obsidian made it rich in the Stone Age, sulphur an...

The remote beaches of Milos, a Greek island in the western Cyclades, are the ones the hire-car queue never reaches: sulp...

A good share of the Milos shoreline, on the western edge of the Aegean's Cyclades, has no road, no path and no name on t...

Milos points most of its best scenery west, which makes it one of the easier Cycladic islands to photograph at the end o...

Milos is the volcanic Cycladic island that Greeks kept to themselves for decades and the rest of the world found in the ...

Milos rewards travellers who want strange volcanic scenery, sea caves and a different beach every day. Paros rewards tra...

The Milos to Folegandros ferry is a short crossing between two Greek islands that have both mostly resisted the full Cyc...

Kimolos sits across a short strait from the north-east corner of Milos, and the little ferry from Pollonia to Psathi cov...

Milos and Santorini are the classic two-island pairing in the southern Cyclades, and the ferry between them takes roughl...

The Milos to Serifos ferry is not really a route of its own. Serifos and Kythnos are scheduled calls on the conventional...

The Milos to Sifnos ferry is the easiest island-hop in this corner of Greece. Sifnos is the next stop north on the same ...

Syros is the administrative capital of the Cyclades, and it carries on working whatever the season is doing. The ferry l...

Choosing between Milos and Santorini comes down to one question: do you want beaches or do you want a view? Milos has th...

The Mykonos to Milos ferry is a high-speed, summer-only crossing of roughly two to three hours, linking the loudest isla...

Naxos and Milos sit on two different Cyclades ferry corridors, and the boat between them is the seam where those corrido...

Paleochori beach is one of the longest stretches of sand on Milos, one of the Greek Cyclades, and the one where the isla...

Papafragas is not really a beach. It is a narrow flooded channel on the north-east coast of Milos, in the Aegean's Cycla...

The Paros to Milos ferry is one of the shortest and most useful hops in the western Cyclades, typically taking somewhere...

Plaka is the capital of Milos, in Greece's western Cyclades, and the prettiest village on the island: whitewashed houses...

Plathiena is the sandy beach below Plaka, the closest real stretch of sand to the island capital and the one people use ...

Pollonia is the quiet alternative to Adamas. It is a single curved bay on the north-east corner of Milos, a Greek island...

Provatas is the beach you choose when comfort matters more than drama. Soft pale sand, water that stays shallow a long w...

Sarakiniko beach in Milos is less a beach than a bare white rock shelf on the north coast, scoured smooth by wind and se...

Kimolos, a Cycladic island in Greece, has a small stock of rooms and studios, split between Chorio, the port at Psathi a...

Where to stay in Milos is decided by one question, and it is not which village is prettiest. If you are hiring a car or ...