Cyclades and Saronic Islands: Athens and Milos · 24.07.2026

Aegean & Greek Islands round trip from Athens

The Route

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• FRI · 24 Jul 2026
  Athens (Piraeus) · Embarkation

  Departure 19:00

  Few arrivals set the tone for Greece quite like the approach into Piraeus, the maritime gateway to Athens since antiquity and today one of the largest passenger harbours in Europe. Above the city the Acropolis has stood for some 2,500 years, crowned by the Parthenon, which Pericles raised in the 5th century BC as the perfect temple of the Classical age. Below it winds the Plaka, the oldest inhabited quarter of Athens, a maze of narrow lanes, neoclassical façades and shaded tavernas. Piraeus itself lives by the sea: around the little yacht basin of Mikrolimano, fish restaurants line the water and serve the catch of the day at the quayside.

• SAT · 25 Jul 2026
  A day under sail
• SUN · 26 Jul 2026
  Amorgos

  Arrival 13:00

  Amorgos is the easternmost of the Cyclades and perhaps the most dramatic, its steep mountain flanks plunging straight into a deep blue sea. Pressed into a cliff face 300 metres high, the monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa gleams dazzling white above the water; founded in 1088, it is still home to a handful of monks. On the coast below lies the bay of Agia Anna, immortalised by Luc Besson in his 1988 film The Big Blue. High above it all stands the Chora, a labyrinth of whitewashed lanes and old windmills that seems to have forgotten time.

• MON · 27 Jul 2026
  Amorgos

  Departure 14:00
• TUE · 28 Jul 2026
  Milos

  Arrival 08:00 Departure 13:30

  Milos owes its shape to its volcanic past, and the evidence is everywhere: at Sarakiniko, wind and water have polished the rock into a moon-white landscape unlike anywhere else in the Aegean. In 1820 a farmer here unearthed the Aphrodite of Milos, known the world over as the Venus de Milo and now in the Louvre. In the fishing village of Klima the syrmata run down to the water, brightly painted boathouses where the fishing boats once wintered. More than 70 coves, each tinted a different shade of volcanic rock, make Milos the most varied of the Cyclades.

• WED · 29 Jul 2026
  Nafplio

  Arrival 08:00 Departure 23:00

  Nafplio was the first capital of independent Greece from 1827 to 1834, and remains one of the country's most elegant towns. Above the old quarter stands the Venetian fortress of Palamidi, reached by a famous flight of steps, while out in the harbour the little island castle of Bourtzi lies at anchor like a ship of stone. The neoclassical lanes, bright with bougainvillea and lined with cafés, seem to breathe history. Two World Heritage Sites lie close by: the ancient theatre of Epidaurus, celebrated for its perfect acoustics, and the citadel of Mycenae with its Lion Gate.

• THU · 30 Jul 2026
  Poros

  Arrival 13:30 Departure 19:00

  Only a narrow channel separates Poros from the Peloponnese, so close that the lemon groves of Galatas seem to scent the air across the water. The island is really two: rocky Sphairia and green, pine-clad Kalauria. Above the little town rises the white clock tower, the emblem of Poros, from which the view sweeps across the rooftops and the anchorage. In the heights lie the remains of the sanctuary of Poseidon, where legend says the orator Demosthenes once sought refuge.

• FRI · 31 Jul 2026
  Athens (Piraeus) · Disembarkation

  Arrival 07:00

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