link to Hydra is impossibly beautiful album
Hydra has historically been a fishing and maritime island port, and was an important naval base for the Greeks during the Revolution after 1821. Today it is a holiday getaway for wealthy Athenian Maybe including Richard Branson: we believe we saw his mansion being totally rebuilt-in stone, construction transport being by donkey or mountain pony.
Motor vehicles including motorbikes are prohibited. (only exception being the municipal garbage collection) Hence a beautiful silence reigns, most wonderfully a freedom from heavy rock pumped from cars at high decibels, which in most places in the world is a plague.
We reached Hydra from Nafplion via 3 buses: to Epidaurus, to Kranidi, then to Ermioni, where we took a 30 minute ferry across to Hydra. There is a fast hydraplane ferry, the “Flying Dolpin” which reaches Athinas in about 2.5 hours, this is how we got back.
We soon found the charming and comfortable Pension Erofili ( info@pensionerofili.gr ) and then discovered our “local” taverna on the waterfront, the Psaropoula (a fairly accurate transcription from the Greek which we – mainly Angie – learnt to decode).
Bakeries were frequently visited, plus Il Posto cafe was our hangout for Greek coffee, the occasional beer, and wifi access.
We did some wonderful, walks up in the hills, one was a good hike. The weather was marvelloous, we saw lots of spring flowers and occasionally startled some fat quail, and sometimes heard the bells of sheep and goats grazing on the hills.We bought tyropita and spanakopita in an excellent bakery, and that was our lunch, somewhere along the way. We saw monasteries and churches usually built at the top of some high hill with a stunning view of the sea.
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