Leaving Hydra and off to Rome

We walked some way along the other side of the island and came across this interesting art. It was spinning rapidly.

A view along the path.

Back in Hydra on our last morning. These cats were waiting for their breakfast.

A little later, time for a sleep.

I spent some time watching the rich people trying to park their yachts, in the meantime the water taxis on the left here ran rings around them. Highly entertaining.

There was a nation wide ferry strike while we were on Hydra which extended out a couple of days. We could have stayed but we had ongoing travel arrangements. Luckily we managed to catch this family owned and crewed boat that was still running across the bay to the mainland. It was a fun ride, quite rough and a fair bit of rolling but we both quite enjoyed it.

Once on the mainland we had a three hour ride in a taxi van that we shared with some other people also leaving Hydra. It was a cool way to see the landscape. This was the view once we got over the hill, heading towards Athens.

While driving through Athens I spotted this very cool Hillman in a gas station. I’d love to know its story.

We had planned to get the ferry from Igoumenitsa to Brindisi but that was also canceled so the next morning we took a flight from Athens to Rome on this Aegean Airlines flight. Nice flight but we did have to get up at 5:15am to get there. Neither of us are great fans of that time in the morning!

Much needed coffee in Rome.

Probably worth the early morning start!

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