last time on delightful travellers we introduced you to our new home in the
Cyclades we settled into Greek island living and we couldn't be happier with our decision
in this video we'll be talking about what led us to choose naxos and why we decided
to move here for a while I'm Trevor and this is Anna in this series we're finally
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well hello everyone and welcome back to another video here in beautiful Greece today we thought
we'd talk about why like why did we choose to come to Greece and more specifically an island in the
middle of the Mediterranean yes we are on naxos if you watched our last video you know that already
also if you've been following us for a long time you probably know that we've been to Greece a
couple of times in the past we absolutely love it it's definitely one of our favorite countries in
the world so it just made sense to come back to Paradise so for those of you that are watching
us for the very first time just a little bit of background for you we've been traveling and making
videos for years but we finally started traveling full time just a couple of months ago our goal is
to go really really slow didn't start off that way we were actually moving every few days but
you know you get really excited but we came to naxos to live for a while figure out what it's
like to be a local here so we're here in the month of October so you guys might be wondering
like where is everybody at well it's shoulder season here we plan to come this time of year so
it would be a lot quieter but one thing about this place naxos has great distractions around
it and we'll elaborate on that so here's what I mean naxos has some pretty popular islands that
are close by which are huge tourist destinations you have Santorini I'm sure you all know what
that is and you also have nikono so they attract most of the tourists I'm not saying noxus doesn't
get Taurus it does but typically it's kind of a different kind of Taurus and right now there's
like no one here and we heard there's still lots of people on Santorini and Mykonos now it's kind
of like in Mexico where you have Cancun and Tulum they are big distractions from places like holbox
which is very close cute little island if you haven't heard of it you should visit that place
also like in the Dominican Republic you have Punta Cana which is a huge tourist destination
but we spend our time in the North Coast so we always seek out places just like this
I love these streets here in Old Town because they're just so teeny tiny there's obviously no
cars up here you can just walk and get lost and it's not that big so you don't really need to
worry about getting lost you're always going to find your way back but I saw these little nooks
and crannies the other thing we like about the old town here is there's no cars you'll
see the occasional scooter but it's mostly just people but there's a lot of stairs we're like
climbing right now and I'm out of breath but yeah if you seem like they're just not gonna
end so this place looks really familiar to me yeah I purposely didn't go back and watch our
old videos just because I kind of wanted to remember it on my own but as we walk through
here it's like little things are coming back I kind of remember that wall over here I think I
remember this church like other little Alleyways and stuff are starting to pop in my head one thing
we try to be strategic about especially for October was where we're gonna go based on the
weather we were in Corfu before this and we heard that October can be really rainy and start to get
a little bit coolish here since it's kind of in the middle not too far from Athens but starting
to get a little bit South it still stays warm it's in the 20s it's like 22 today but it can
be very windy it seems to come and go like they'll be just blowing around but you seem to get a few
days of like super calm and then like five days of a lot of wind just how it is I think some of you
would say this is the absolute perfect weather I mean 23 degrees and Sun it is kind of perfect but
for us we could deal with it being a little warmer remember we're used to the Caribbean temperatures
and this isn't quite that so we're just coming into like kind of the shopping Zone like the old
Market I think I think this is part maybe part of the Old Market or just outside of the Old Market
something that we definitely noticed here is how much has changed since the last time we were here
and the last video we talked about restaurants and and like bars and cafes but boutiques here
are like on a whole nother levels than they were last time I'm sure so we travel with very very
very little luggage and usually not much extra space I've already bought a couple of things
since I was here including this in a dress and I'm so tempted to buy more but it of course means I
have to get rid of stuff one thing I do buy a lot of and I think Trevor does here and there
too is jewelry because of course that's easy pack so by jewelry and it means bracelets are what I
usually go for I have been trying to find like a necklace of some sort I have a certain like
style that I'm looking for but I can't find it anywhere in the world I just want kind of like
a vertical kind of like rectangle and just all black something that you don't really notice but
I also don't know if I could even pull that off am I that like in my necklace guy I don't know
we have just come down to like the main Port kind of Boardwalk area close to the Temple of
Apollo which is Super Sam lots of beaches around and that's definitely something that's super
appealing to us about naxos maybe today is not the best day for the beach there's some waves now you
can really see how windy look at the waves back there so that's not one of the beaches we would
normally go I think this side is always really wavy yeah the other side that's a lot better and
a lot calmer probably not so much today but there are some beautiful beaches there yeah if you look
over here you can see just how very little people there are and yeah this is small little beach this
way we'll show you you can see a ferry over there too speaking of fairies you can see one just came
in here so these are these happen daily so you might be wondering like what if you want to get
off the island like what if you have Island fever we don't get Island fever so don't worry about
that but it's easy there's fairies all the time a lot of them go to Athens which is a major major
city with a major major international airport so if we want to like fly back home it's kind
of quick or if we want to fly towards Asia which we could do we're kind of right in the middle also
there's an airport on the island too we just came over to one of our favorite coffee shops here's
the style of like a trendy Cafe which wasn't here before but we're talking about why we're back in
Greece this is the real reason Alfredo cappuccino the total reason is Fredo cappuccino is these are
actually the best iced coffee drink in the world and you can't seem to get some outside of Greece
so they do like they whip the espresso and the milk and it's super frothy and you kind of mix
it together there's cinnamon on the top if you wanted it it's so good we've talked about them
before and I'm just being a little tongue-in-cheek but kind of honestly we sort of came back for
this we're actually just on our way back to the apartment that we've rented we did give a full
tour in the last video but there's one thing that we didn't show you which is a huge draw for us
being digital Nomads being full-time Travelers and having to work so we'll show you that in a
second so what she's talking about is the internet and we sound really excited about that because we
are so when we travel because we work online and we upload these videos we need decent speeds and
you'd be shocked you'd be shocked at how often we come across terrible internet here we get about I
think usually it's about 20 Megs down in about 10 Megs up which seems to be like most of the
islands so when we were in Corfu we had such a terrible time trying to find good internet
all the places we stayed at which were quite a few had about a 10 5 to 10 megabits down which
sounds pretty good I mean for checking email no problem but it's the upload speed for us it was
like .05 which means we couldn't upload videos at all it would actually take like two or three days
to upload one of these videos so we would kind of go in and out of different restaurants in
that town and try to find some even half decent internet which we did we just go in with their
laptops and eat lunch and try to upload off their Wi-Fi so that sometimes we have to do that to make
these videos but when we have stable internet like we do right here for the entire month and
a few weeks after that like this is awesome this is exactly what we're looking for when we travel
makes things a lot easier I think for now we're probably gonna stop for a bit do some work maybe
try to get some pool time in if we can it's super windy out there but that pool is perfect for just
lounging it doesn't get too windy there and maybe we'll pick you up in a little bit we're thinking
about heading back into the main part of town and maybe trying to find a cool cocktail bar
well check this out it is now happy hour time and sunset hour and this place we're
at is beautiful we're at a rooftop bar called 520 and we're looking out as the sun goes down
over Paris in the background and look at this drink that I got here this is a Mai
Tai drink and it's in this cool little cup it's like like a kettle almost or
something you would like water plants with I better not tip that too much because it
will come right out but it's made with um the local liqueur I wanted some kind of a
Greek cocktail and ketron ketron is in here so they said it's gonna be good I'll try quickly
can confirm is very good very beached very beachy drink I mean this is like a super hot
weather drink which is not quite right now the minute the sun goes down it feels about six seven
eight degrees cooler so I'll put we put the prices on the screen already and you guys are probably
like whoa that's expensive well we're paying for the view but we're on a rooftop bar so yeah it's
about 12 14 euros Canadians probably about 16 17 we don't do that very often I just we just wanted
to show you the options you can get here now you can go at like the place we're at in the previous
video and get a cocktail for about six Euro and get something similar or just a classic one like
an aperol Spritz you can get a beer for cheaper and you can even get wine like a half liter wine
for five euro we're just trying to show you guys the different things you can get really expensive
cocktails here on rooftop high-end rooftop patios or you can go to local places and get other things
so I went for a drink that's a spritz but not an aperol Spritz as you can probably tell from the
color this one has some vodka elderflower Prosecco and grapefruit it's nice and refreshing but not
too too like beachy it's really really good also we got a little bit of a snack we got a very uh
I guess Greek or naxian type snack it is naxi and potatoes so very local potatoes you're going
to find those everywhere here one thing I really like about them is that they cut them differently
wherever you guess they're super fresh and very very unique they're covered also in naxi and
graviera cheese I think it's called and some herbs but Nexus is also really really well known for
cheese so if you go to any like local restaurants here you're gonna see all sorts of different
local cheeses it's almost like Canadian poutine without the grape it's almost like poutine but
with different cheese and no gravy one thing we're loving about naxos that I find is about Greece in
general is that there is an abundance of different types of food so there's lots of different types
of Greek foods which is like a huge list in and of itself you might think of it as being like
Souvlaki but there's so many different types of Greek foods that you can get but they also have
lots of different things like pizza of course you can get pizza anywhere in the world but they have
some good pizzas here there's some Asian food a whole bunch of different things which for us
is a big seller we cannot stay in one place for a month or two and be limited to very very like one
type of food also we find the servings pretty much everywhere are huge we've been basically
splitting Mains everywhere we go which saves US money which is it's so cool you can see another
one of these fairies coming in so there's still a lot of them happening at the moment the back
door comes down while they're docking so it's really awesome to see now we're talking about
that we're in naxos in the main town here in Hora but this island is pretty big there's lots to do
here there's other towns there's amazing beaches around as well we're going to go off and explore
some of those in upcoming videos and there's even some mountains and I don't know if we're
gonna hike the highest one or anything like that probably not if you guys know us but we're gonna
rent a car and go on a couple different missions so there's a lot to this island it's not just
one tiny little place and that was one of the big appealing things about coming here okay one more
thing I want to touch on before we end this video and we lose the light as well but it's a little
bit about culture shock something you're not going to experience too much here in Greece for us the
light just came on for us not a big deal I mean we've been to almost 50 countries we're used to
being a little bit of culture shock and we kind of enjoy it but for people that maybe I watching
this from Canada US different parts of the world that maybe haven't done that much traveling you're
thinking about coming to Greece but you might be a little bit nervous like do people speak English
am I going to feel out of my comfort zone this is a great place to come a lot of people speak
English I feel like you're just in general it's a good integration into Europe you're not going to
feel too uncomfortable or be out of your element too much and we were also saying if you're like a
European and you're listening to what we're saying and you're thinking about coming to Greece they'd
be like what are you even talking about yeah this is great it's easy well I hope you guys can see
why we decided to move to Greece move to naxos for a couple months maybe a few months we'll see
we're just gonna max out those days we talked about that we get on our passport but we also
just wanted to end the video right here because look at the light behind this yeah it doesn't
even look like this is in person it's even better in the camera that doesn't happen that often yeah
this is super cool so yeah this town I hope you guys can tell that there's a lot that this island
has to offer now we didn't even leave the town yet but just in general all the amenities are here and
we work for ourselves so that's like that's a priority more that's step one yeah but there's
gonna be lots more videos coming from here we'll probably like rent a car maybe an ATV or yeah
like a quad bike or a 18 what are they called The Boogie a buggy and like take it around the island
explore a little bit yeah we'll see that's why we came here this is so much to do and I think
we we're getting the point across to you guys now if you got this far in the video thank you for
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