Hydra Travel Guide

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Leonard Cohen's Island

Where: Hydra, Hydra, Greece
August 31, 2005 at 10:33 AM | by | Comments (0)


In 1960, when he was 25, Leonard Cohen left London and headed for Hydra, where he hung out with a few other early-adopting bohemians on this very rustic Greek island. Hydra isn't nearly as isolated as Cohen found it -- it's now a popular weekend spot, especially for people escaping from Athens, just 40 miles away. But it's still a very calm place -- motor vehicles are banned, and donkey remains the major form of transportation.

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