Kalafati Beach

This guide to Kalafati Beach in Mykonos traces the trade behind its name: the kalafatis, or caulkers, who once hauled wooden boats onto this sand and packed tar into their seams by hand. It follows what that unglamorous, hands-blackened work looked like before tourism arrived, and how a beach built for repairing hulls became one for windsurfing and sunbeds instead. Stand at the waterline and listen for how much of that old trade survives only in the name people still use for this bay.