Miaoulis Festival Fireworks from The Terrace Restaurant

The Terrace Restaurant offers many excellent dishes, and many steps. On a night like tonight the view is utterly spectacular though. The port filled with rousing music, the silhouettes of victorious dancers projected up the hill, a ship destroyed and set on fire and breathtaking fireworks lighting up the whole town in an extravaganza celebrating of one of Hydras favourite sons and key figure in the Greek War of Independence (1821–30), Admiral Miaoulis.

Admiral Miaoulis (briefly Vice Admiral). Trader, turned mercenary, turned great military tactician reminds, me a little of Hans Solo.

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Hydra Port

Hydra contains such contrasting people. Yaughtsmen, Donkeymen, Island Hoppers, Priests, Newlyweds, Artists, Thinkers, Foodies, Property Developers, Fishermen. Somehow they all live alongside each other without conflict and content. Some of this I put into a poem while enjoying the view: Hydra: Port of intertwined passages Clopping donkeys The thick smell of hard work Bobbing fishing boats, peeling paint Flecks of light dancing Glistening yachts Baby bouncers, riders brandishing toys Cruciform masts dot the bay Empty Monasteries dot the hills Souvenirs laid out like sweets Bejewelled boutiques empty pretty Hulking rusting supply boat Weighed down with cat food Complaining locals bemoaning mistaken orders Trolleys barging along the quay Marble stairs Behind shades Furtive pupils dart As miss after miss walks by Evening creeps up the hill A child whose bedtime's has passed Thinkers, dozers, snappers, wondering couples Sharing the...

Fishermen

The fish have many fans. Get to the port around 8-9am and see what you can get straight off the boat.

Mid-Summer Evening Sun. Pebbles by Anon.

Hydra Notes

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