Continuing where I left off with Athens, here’s the post on Hydra Island!
Hydra is an island a little ways off Athens. Going there is pretty easy as there are many boats and online marketplaces where you can search for tickets, such as http://www.fantasticgreece.com/ports/hydra-port.aspx for example. Our tickets came up to 50 Euros per person for a two-way ferry ticket. Not a cheap price by any means so I don’t think this day trip is for the budget traveler, though it was a nice getaway from Athens. The island reminded me a lot of Santorini IMO, with its waters, neat little buildings and sunny touristy feel. Athens was a lot more quiet, not so touristy, and sometimes a little gloomy 😦
We booked our tickets online, collected them at the ticket counters near the docks, and off we go!
Port where we collected the tickets and boarded the ferry
Selfie complete with my skin peeling and shit
Idk why the sky looked gloomy here, it was really bright and sunny lol. And i’m too lazy to edit this photo heh. Anyways this was our Hellenic Seaways ferry
On the ferry – damn this is really reminiscent of that boat ride we took from Jeju to Udo?? With the Korean flag behind?
Aaaand we reached Hydra after an hour, where we’re treated to lovely blue skies and warm weathers.
Getting down from the ferry
Walking from the dock
Big boats
Came across donkeys
Our first stop was lunch, of course! There were many recommended places on Hydra but the place isn’t really big enough for each restaurant to have an exact location on the map. Mostly vague coordinates. So we wandered in and just told ourselves we’ll eat wherever.
By some stroke of luck though, we came across one of the restaurants we had starred on the maps! We had a moment’s hesitation as it was Italian and not Greek food, but at that point we were all craving pasta anyway so it worked out for the best haha.
Restaurant front
From the entrance
Pretty color tones!
Ze food!!
After scrumptious lunch we headed out to start exploring this lovely island!
Love love how the architecture all comes together
Splash of red
I suppose what sets this apart from Santorini is the brown and red mixed into the cool white/blue colors
😀
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Idk what’s going on here
Tentatively approaching the donkeys
Boats everywhere!!!!
Moar boatsss
Kittyyyy!!!
After exploring the area near the dock, we decided to do a mini hike to the beaches along Hydra Island.
Off we go on this mini hike!
Awesome views along the way
:O
We found the first beach!… which turned out a little lame. So we walked on some more.
Lovely stuff
How’d it get up there?
Along the way we came across something of a ghost town and there was this artist sitting there just painting. He stopped us to ask for some water for his water paint pen thing. Haha. Not even for himself.
Came across this cafe in the middle of said ghost town, and we settled down for a rest and chat with the owner!
That was when I wandered off on my own to see what I could find.
Ghost town~
Spotted the beach from above!
I tried to do my own photoshoot by propping the camera up on a rock omfg looking back at this is severely embarrassing
After some self explroation I went back to find the rest who were still chilling with the nice lady from the cafe. We all decided the nice weather was a waste and decided to change and head down to the deserted beach!
The beach we’re heading to! I’m listing to summer tracks now so this picture is making me excited.
Posing pretentiously
🙂
THe view of the little cafe/house
Everyone chilling
im fabulous
Honestly this little beach trip did uplift our spirits a lot. We’ve been in the cold too long! D:
Yays
Grabbed some ice cream afterwards to cool down near the harbor.
The BF and I decided to explore a little further while Termanda chilled with the ice cream. We hiked a little further up and had this weird self-photoshoot thing wherever we found a quiet spot haha. It’s a bit embarrassing esp when someone suddenly comes along and we had to pretend like we weren’t up to anything.
Example of a pretentious photoshoot hahahaha
Mother of pretentious photoshoots
Aaaaaand that concluded Hydra for us! Santorini coming up next!!
darmawanders 