last time on delightful travellers we went on a weekend getaway to the island of Mykonos the
island was unfortunately too crowded for us so after a few days we were ready to return
home in this video we're back in naxos but it's our final day on the island it will be hard to
leave this place but sadly it's time to move on I'm Trevor and this is Anna in this series
we've been living out one of our ultimate dreams living in Greece make sure you hit
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well so many people told us maybe we were making a mistake choosing naxos as a place the island that
we want to live on for a month and mainly they said because October the fall can be so windy
here well they certainly got the wind right but we still don't think it was a bad decision they
also told us it would be too cold and a lot of things would be closed so sadly this is
going to be our last video from here on naxos and throughout the course of the video we're going to
be talking about the things we really liked about living here about staying here for so long maybe
some things that we didn't like so much so today we thought we'd take you guys out of the main town
and away from the beach and get way up in the mountains here you can't even see the ocean and
we're in this Valley and of course you can see well what's behind us just look at this thing
believe it or not naxos has more than one Temple if you're watching our previous videos you would
have seen us go to the Temple of Apollo which is right in the middle of town you clearly can't miss
it when you come in but off in the middle of middle of naxos is the Temple of Demeter it's
actually from the same time as the other Temple so it's a sixth Century BC it is devoted to Demeter
not sure if I'm saying that correctly and she was the ancient goddess of agriculture oh it's
windy over here you guys but one of the huge huge perks of being here this time of year towards the
end of October we're really late in the season as we have this all to ourselves right now like
completely all to ourselves there were some other cars but people seem to go up and just go I think
it's because of the wind but we're here to make a video the wind's not going to stop us a little
fun fact for you about this Temple it was built in the Dork architectural style which also influenced
the Parthenon in Athens which builds after this so I know a lot of you have been wondering why
we've not been seeing a lot of like architecture Greek architecture and in the comments you guys
been kind of been saying that so here's the thing we were in Italy before this we've been in Greece
now for well over a month and we come across stuff like this all the time and I don't want to say we
used to it but we're almost taking it for granted a little bit we just see it every
single day so that's why we don't always come up to these uh attractions but this
one is worth it this is one of the things to do while you're right here on naxos we're going to
try to go behind this little uh I don't know is this a church a little chapel up here yeah
goddess maybe Temple the reason we're coming here is to block the wind yeah it's my hair
okay I feel like it's going to be all over the place in this video but I wanted to
point this out they have like renderings of what this Temple would have looked like and
wow totally different obviously than what it looks like right now being just ruins but it
had like a roof on it you go inside wow that's amazing so back to the bad decision was it a bad
decision so we'll give you guys this one it is a windy a very windy Island it's not windy every
day though I'd say it was about half half the time we were here half windy half not but when
it's windy like look out yeah the question of the weather during October seems to be the big
question that everyone always has I think a lot of people want to come here but they're a little
nervous that it won't be hot enough or that it's way too windy so we basically found like there
will be four to five days of a lot of wind and it's obviously cooler when the wind comes up so
it might be anywhere from like 19 to 23 each day and when it's windy it feels a little bit cooler
but then the wind goes away like the last week we had 23 24 every day in no way only so just expect
like a little bit it goes up and down but towards early October we had weather in in the 30s like 30
degrees Celsius so keep that in mind and rain we had one day of a little bit of rain and throughout
an entire month that's it wow it just doesn't rain here like at all so if you're wondering
about visiting the temple it costs four Euros per adult and it was you park on the road so a
little bit weird there's not really a parking lot I don't know what it would be like in the
summer time because you just really park on the road behind the previous car it's about a three
minute walk uphill not too hard but if you do have a hard time walking especially on these
Stones you might have a little bit of a hard time but most people it's very very easy now on to the
next place well welcome to the next location you can't tell from this scene but we are way I mean
way up in the mountains of naxos it's a little bit cooler here now I have the hoodie zipped up
the town we're in is called aperiantos now pronunciation I'm not sure but I think it
is correct and what's really interesting about this town is we heard it's almost entirely made
of marble and right away we just walked into the main area and I can see nothing but marble
foreign
how do you call a donkey we tried this before with the horse
hey buddy oh I hear a cat too oh it's coming it's coming oh the anticipation you guys oh
the anticipation come on oh so we're surprised there's still a few things open up here there's
a restaurant there look at this uh that's pretty cool yeah I found out a few things about this town
before we came here one has 1100 inhabitants maybe that explains why a lot of things are still open
because you know people have to eat somewhere and shop somewhere during the whole year and I think
I do there are a lot of tourists that come here but again there's not that many tourists around
right now uh the name of the town actually means plenty of flowers so I wonder if we'll see lots
of flowers around it's very very famous for its architecture we've kind of already talked about
that I think pretty much almost the entire town is made out of marble there's also like pretty much
all towns here in Greece especially on the islands you're gonna find a Venetian castle in the center
and if we got anything wrong you can blame Google yes we're using our phone so check this out you
guys you can see there's like a bell tower there the top of the castle and then over here there's
like a set of marble stairs that just goes to who knows where do you see anything I do I don't think
this town could be any cuter look at this street how beautiful is it it's like one of the most
inviting alleys I've ever seen we're clearly gonna have to go that way I can't reiterate enough how
good of a decision it was to come to Greece this time of year look at this you guys it's just it's
just us most places we go on the island it's just us so if you ever want to have a Greek island to
yourself come here at the end of shoulder season so just a minute ago I was talking about how I was
surprised to see that everything or a lot of stuff is open here in this relatively small town and you
might be wondering like did a lot of stuff close throughout the course of our time here because we
need to talk in the first video that most stuff was open and we said we'd kind of mentioned how
things were kind of closing throughout the course of the month so when we got here I think it was
September the end of September or something like that everything was open there was lots of people
around gradually it seemed like each week a new place or a few new places would close so the
very first week of October a few things closed and then like the week after a few more things
however there's still loads of stuff open most of our favorite stuff thankfully stay it open some of
them stay open into November some stuff stays open the entire year so you're never not going to be
able to find good food there's lots of restaurants that stay open I think the big loss for us funny
enough there was a lunch place that we went to every almost every few days to get a Falafel
wrap it's perfect for splitting we loved it for lunch they closed like the minute the middle of
October with that in general it was the biggest loss for us so that's not that's saying like a lot
of stuff really stayed open well we just stopped into a place to get something to eat we got one of
our favorite Greek beers since it's our last time here on the island we're going with a mammos but
check out where we're at right now we're in this kind of like little it's almost like a courtyard
and there's an amazing view here as well it's so amazing I'm so happy there's places open up
here because honestly driving up I was like are these places going to be open are we just going
to like a ghost town luckily it's not a ghost town for our afternoon snack we're actually going for
something we have never tried before believe it or not this is called fava of shenusa Shinu says
actually an island just south of Knoxville I had to actually look that up so it's very very
nearby fava beans and they were told that it's very very similar to Hummus oh no check it out
we just got invaded by a tour group believe it or not I'm surprised to see you like a big group of
tourists I think it's a good thing though they're here they're going to support the restaurants that
are open but I didn't expect to see a tour group now back to the task at hand let's try
this dip I love that it's just sitting in some Greek olive oil there's some red onions on top
so yes I would say hummus is a very very good comparison to this very mild there's
nothing overly strong about it I wouldn't say there's like a ton of garlic or anything overly
pungent in it it's nice that they actually put those onions on top because it does give you a
little bit of like extra Zing to it of course olive oil it doesn't get any better than here
in Greece so yeah this is a nice little late afternoon snack well we've met a lot
of very cute Greek cats on the Strip This is the first one that's actually launched into my lap
can we get it to look at the camera look at this little guy
what a cutie no one thing I will miss here is definitely the Greek yeah
it's kind of like make muffins on you
now this is something you don't see every day oh wow look at that
kind of steep stairs too I know not every day you're walking up a stair and you pass a horse
in a random Little Greek Village so I'm sure you guys are wondering like what was it like
like what was it like to be here for well over a month on a Greek Island in shoulder season it
has been phenomenal it has we definitely consider doing it again oh yeah it's been amazing we've met
interesting people it's been really quiet we felt like we've got places to ourselves we haven't felt
like we've been crowded around a million people like you would in the summertime it's just been
really lovely yeah we kind of went with our gut on this one not with Greece in general we love
Greece but we were a little bit concerned about you know what was open and what wasn't and is
it too late in the season and we can tell you if you're thinking about doing this if that's
something you're into and you have uh you can kind of go for a month or so or longer I would
do it and I would come right around this time yes there are a couple of things that I'm a little bit
disappointed that we kind of missed out on I think we were a little too late in the season one is to
go out on the boat tours there's loads and loads of board shows you can do from the main part of
town I think they go into like caves and you need to go like swimming and snorkeling and that kind
of thing just a little bit too cold for that and windy so it was hard to pick a day and like not
know that you're gonna you know get a good day for it yeah yeah and speaking of just boats in general
I know a lot of you have kind of asked us like why haven't you gone to a lot of other islands
like in some of the small ones I know we've got a lot of questions about right yeah like we did
do of course do Mykonos but we wanted to do some smaller lesser known Islands but we talked to some
locals and they thought maybe we were a little bit too late in the season that most stuff would be
close we could have gone and done it but we just probably would have been walking around some empty
streets and maybe had trouble yeah it was hard it's not easy to even like you know obviously
we can't take talk to the locals on the islands we were thinking about going to so we could only
rely on Google Maps and Google Maps throughout not always updated so it looked like a lot of
things restaurants cafes were just weren't open on something however if we're wrong and you know
we're wrong just leave a message in the comments so that people will know and then we'll know
because I can guarantee you this we are 100 going to come back to Greece again on an island probably
an island maybe the mainland though for a long time at some point just we don't know when what
about the things we might miss though most things are going to miss this beautiful architecture the
stunning Cyclades just the White and the blue and all the pretty towns the food all the food so good
I know I think I'm gonna miss the coffee drink coffee coffee speaking of coffee should we go
get one we should we're now back over in Hora the main town and at our favorite coffee shop called
never mind they're making our Alfredo cappuccinos yes we had to get Fredo cappuccinos once again
before we leave honestly our favorite coffee on the entire planet I wish sometimes I could just
get like a cup of whipped milk I love the whipped milk so much but then there'd be no coffee in
it right though this really is the best coffee ever and it's honestly a traffic travesty that
it hasn't made it to different parts of the world but I'm gonna miss it so so much let's talk about
the island a little bit this really has been the perfect Island for us there's different Cuisines
of course we've mentioned we love Greek food but it's always great for us to have different types
of food there's an Asian restaurant here you can get burgers like you literally can get pretty much
for almost everything here and like I said most of it has stayed open so it's not like we felt
like we've really lost a lot of restaurants since things started closing there's beaches there's
mountains you can go hiking if that's if you're into that like the nature is just incredible even
going from town to town today we didn't film any of that but it's worth just going out and
exploring the island because it's probably bigger than you might think you just think of like this
the main little town or the Big Town and then the little towns outside and the beaches but there's
so much more to Nexus than that such authentic little towns all over the place it's beautiful
beautiful spot so the question is would we come back here to naxos and and do all this again
absolutely yeah in case you didn't figure it out we really really loved our time here we happily
come back at the same same time there's so many islands in Greece so I'd love to try another one
so maybe we'll ask you guys like what do you think in shoulder season especially in getting
into the low season is the best island this time of year not too windy stays relatively warm you
can still go to the beach it doesn't rain too much yeah now I know we've gotten comments
already throughout the videos a lot of people said roads would be or rodos would be a good but then I
think somebody commented and said it gets rainy it doesn't matter yeah does it rain in roads in
October I I don't know I think it rains a little more than here but we thought about that because
we've been to Rhodes before but maybe hey maybe that's the future somewhere around bro yes for us
it has to be a big not too small of an island yeah like Nexus is really the perfect size now this is
uh this is gonna do it for our time here on the island we're leaving I know so I we hope you guys
enjoyed this Greek island living series I know um we have it's it's been an ultimate dream of
ours to do something like this it really has and I still can't believe we actually made it happen
and pulled it off if we went back five years ago and we said hey let's go like live on a
great Island someday it's funny because I thought like even years ago when we were traveling a lot
you still talk about like wouldn't it be nice to like slow travel some kids someday and get to try
out living in different places but it still kind of feels like a dream like it's never actually
gonna happen well then at the time like going back saved it was five years ago it feels like
it's impossible to happen you're like well how do you do that and then you're like oh it's too
big of a task but it's like little by little we slowly got there and here we are and yeah it just
feels feels really good so we are going to Athens next just uh for a few days yeah very short little
stopover we think we're filming so you might see us back with one more video in Athens but if we're
not we're just not 100 sure yet we're gonna pick you up in a brand new country I'm so excited for
this so this country that we're going to next has been pretty much at one of the top maybe
the top maybe the top if not the top two three new countries for us that we've never been to
and we can't wait it's gonna be hot it's gonna be hotter than this that's for sure yeah and
in a whole a different part of the world so leave your guesses below but we just want to thank each
and every one of you for watching getting this far in the video it's Trevor Anna delightful Travelers
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guys that's it from naxos for the last time for a while wishing you delightful travel see you soon