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Postcard Home: Hydra
Like a bird on a wire… Anyone else love that song by Leonard Cohen? Turns out that he wrote it here on the beautiful island of Hydra. This long, skinny, jagged strip of an island is just a few miles off the Greek mainland and sits strategically between the Argolic and Saronic gulfs. I can…
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Salty Tales
Actually, before we leave the Eastern Greek islands, I need to tell some stories about 3 of the islands we passed quite quickly through and I barely mentioned last year. These 3 islands are closely linked through geography and history and a long and noble maritime presence. These islands are Chios, the largest, Oinousses, a…
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Happy Days in the Social Islands…..
It’s been a funny season for us. With no fixed plans of where to go we’ve spent a lot of time going back and forth across the Aegean this year. 4 crossings so far in the last 3 months. This has had the benefit of us putting to rest some nerves about the windiest regions…
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