Madeleine Speed
July 8, 2020 8:34 am ET
Ας Hydra faces a challenging tourist season, the island’s storied past and
glittering present—rife with legendary writers and artists, from Lord Byron and
Leonard Cohen to Jeff Koons and Kara Walker—continue to lure tycoons and fellow
travelers.
Mornings
on Hydra are heralded by the island’s overzealous cockerels. The baying of
donkeys starts shortly after, accompanied by a low chorus, synonymous with heat
and pine, of cicadas. These sounds eventually give way to the clock tower’s
chime and the click-tick of komboloi–Greek worry beads—that elders flip
languidly with their fingers. Parked beneath awnings of port-front cafes, these
longtime Hydriots survey the tourists, who in turn survey the yachts jostling
with fishing boats at the harbor’s edge...
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