First day on Hydra

We woke up early to walk to the port, which was about 2 miles away from our hotel/apartment deal. We took a Flying Dolphin this time, which was not even close to as bad as the last one, much to our relief. We got to Hydra and realized that it was just as beautiful as Poros, but an entirely different type of beautiful. Hydra is built on a mountainside and the houses are a lot older than on Poros. It is the traditional white buildings with blue trim and narrow streets. Every person we talked to told us that when we got there we had to ride the donkeys up the mountain, because they do not have cars on Hydra. There is one Garbage truck. There was a gathering of gentlemen who were peddling donkey rides at the port so we decided to take one right after we bartered for a hotel. We asked the ass man how long the ride was and he said fitee minutes, which we all took as fifty, but naturally it was only 15 minutes for ten Euro. Damn. Fun ride though. We stopped at a bakery after and had some great ham and cheese sandwich things. We decided to take a walk to see some of the views that Hydra has to offer. Hydra is much bigger than Poros, so we thought we would walk around only part of it. The problem was, the trail is not marked, so we walked for two and half hours and we got to a gate that said we couldn’t go any farther. Bennet was feeling really ill so we just decided to walk back, dejected and very tired. There were some beautiful views, but we saw the same view for like an hour because we had to make our way up a steep hill. We got back and the weather had cleared up quite a bit, so Cassie, Oz, and I decided to check out the other side of the island. We made it about a quarter of a mile and sat down and waited for the sunset, which was kind of disappointing, but fun to relax and watch and polish off a bottle of wine. Then we went to Lulu’s where I had the best Carbonara I’ve ever had, I’m pretty sure the guy used a whole stick of butter in it. That’s ok, we walked like 10 miles that day. After that we just went and chilled on the dock and talked for a while, and polished off another bottle of wine.