Hotel Delfini
Travel Blogs from Hydra
Day Cruise: Aegina Island - 3rd Stop
... to the bar for a glass of wine and and a gin and tonic. They also gave us an array of various snacks that went along wery well with our drinka! Then time to pack to get ready to head to Santorini in the morning. Can I tell you, its starting to get difficult to crunch our stuff into our luggage. With only a carry on and a small shoulder bag each, the tetrizing has begun! Thank goodness Karen is a pro at packing!!! Then ready for an early flight at 8:30 ...
Day Cruise: Idra - 1st Stop
... quite yummy and covered in Nutella, but too much of a good thing is not so good. Why would our stomachs hurt after all that hot fried food covered in chocolate? I dont understand! The donuts are actually made right when your order them, so they are quite hot when you bite into them! These are called loukoumades. The other option was to have them covered in honey.
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The Mountain and the Sea
... the festival and buying some goodies (including eating the best baclava I have ever had in my life), a few fellows and I headed further inland on the island to visit the Temple of Aphaia. This temple is number two in the trifecta of temples in the country which is often called the "Holy Triangle."
This triangle is formed by three main temples that you can visit- The ...
Athens
On my God. We wake up at 9.30 and hardly have any time to go into Athens. Rushed ashore without even a cuppa and had a coffee in a cafe before getting the hop on hop off to the city. Unfortunately the central city is closed today because of Angela Merkels visit and with riots expected. (And which did happen shortly after we ...
Nafplio and Hydra
... views were worth it. The rest of my time in Nafplio was spent mountain biking and eating Pitas. The mountain biking was great, actually off-road and not city riding. The other thing was if you get too hot or are tired, you just take a quick dip in the water. There are endless opportunities to jump off small cliffs and swim in the ocean and I did a few times. There are tons of people swimming and they ...