Relax ..
Just be, just take time to do nothing .. writing postcards will be your most important task for the day. Enjoy this time, before you have to return to your normal life. Doing nothing, with Steve, by the pool at the Bratsera.
Tombazi Street, 18040, Greece
Mandraki bay
pebble beach at Kamini
small stone bridge at Vlichos
monument WWII
Just be, just take time to do nothing .. writing postcards will be your most important task for the day. Enjoy this time, before you have to return to your normal life. Doing nothing, with Steve, by the pool at the Bratsera.
Hydra enchants its visitors with its traditional architecture and imposing mansions, its blooming gardens and scenic coblestones, and its pleathora of churches and monasteries. the blue of the sea fuses with the white and gray tones of the island, creating a peaceful and serene atmosphere.
Hydra has been a place of inspiration for many artists and literary figures, including N. Chatzikyriakos, Gikas, P. Petsis, Elytis, Egonopoulos, Seferis, and Henry Miller who have left their mark on the island. Today, Hydra continues to inspire artists, such as Leonard Cohenm who has an old mansion on the highest part of the island, in which he has written many books and several songs.
Greek Orthodox Easter in Hydra is a unique experience, from the majestic Orthodox services held outdoors in candlelight on Good Friday and Good Saturday, to local customs like immersing the Epitaph in the sea, on Good Friday evening, in Kamini beach.
You keep seeing the hydrofoils going further south from Hydra until, finally, curiosity gets the better of you and you step aboard. The usual next stop is the island of Spetses. Spetses share a similar history to Hydra - refuge beginnings, shipbuilders, blockade runners, wealth and a leading role in the War of Independence of 1821. There is a fine museum and many beaches out of town. Lots of foreign tourist set up shop here on the island. It washere that English author John Fowles taught at a boys' school, using spare tiime to write 'The Magus'.
Café Sinialo is another café like Gonia that faces the port, I can just copy what the other café offers with only different prices and (a bit slower service)
By the way the nescafe costs here 2.8euro and the chocolate 3 euros We just went there because Gonia café was full but we didn’t really care, we played back gammon anyway :)
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