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heritage
George Daktylides convinced his brothers to invest in a
vehicle, and before long, with a fleet of twenty-five buses,
they ran the island’s only public transport network. “as kids,
we sold tickets on our dad’s buses, which was a little boy’s
dream”, says Markos Daktylides.
the AGe oF iNNoCeNCe
Besides visitors to a few private villas, the island was a well-guarded secret before the yachts and cruise ships the oLD worLD
of the Sixties began to drop anchor on their way to view the magnificent ancient ruins of Delos. Young Eleftheria Daktylides with her parents at Delos. At that time, Mykonos was very different from that of today.
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