Day 19 Hydra

We headed off for a coastal walk just before the cruises arrived into town and we had the place to ourselves a little, we found a place where what appeared to be raw sewage was being pumped into the sea. 

Hydra is interesting because of the lack of vehicles permitted (apart from the rubbish truck) so everything is transported via hand trolleys, donkeys, mules or ponies. Watching the mules loaded up with everything from house bricks to incredibly long pieces of timber (how do they get around the corners?) gives the area a quiet feel, even a little primitive. If you book accommodation on the hill you have to hire a donkey to take your luggage up so we made sure we booked a place close to the port. 

In the afternoon M went on a hill walk up to the Monastery before we enjoyed a very tasty Italian meal in an alley near our home. Hydra is really lovely but in hindsight 24 hours would have been enough, at least it's giving us some down time to investigate where we should be going next. 

We are discovering that bed making in Greece is different to home, sometimes the top sheet is just folded on the foot of the bed like a throw, but most times it is made on the bed but not tucked in at the foot so by the morning you find you are wrapped in it like a Grecian robe.