When you are in a brand new city, country and culture your eyes are wide open and you can drink in and more fully appreciate what you are experiencing. Ah........the true beauty of slow travel !
Hydra is an exceptionally unique little Greek island as there are no vehicles permitted - not even bicycles ! It has a permanent population of approximately 2,000 people and 500 donkeys and mules (and one fire truck, one ambulance and one garbage truck ) It is incredible to think of the children who grow up on Hydra living this lifestyle and what they must think when they have their first visit to Athens. It must seem like they are on a different planet !
UNESCO has awarded Hydra a special recognition for " preserving integrity of place " I spent one afternoon wandering the narrow, twisting, back streets through Hydra town and was taken by the intricate and utterly unique door knockers which were just like little works of art ! This is one of the fantastic moments of "slow travel " when you can truly take time to drink in and fully appreciate where you are !
Carpe Diem* Sabrina
MAGIC DOORS !
" Traveling- it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller " - Ibn Battuta
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