We arrive at Hydra Island after a two-hour ferry ride from Piraeus Port in Athens. It is called “Pirate Island” and we are greeted in the small and beautiful port of the island by ancient cannons. This island, with its alleys and traditional car-free lifestyle, was used in the sixties and seventies as the home of the magical singer and composer Leonard Cohen. Here, in a place where time seemed to stand still, without motorized vehicles, only donkeys, he wrote most of his famous works. It was also here, in the small shop in the center of the village, that he met his beautiful Norwegian beloved wife Marian, who served as his muse for the music he wrote. Here he found peace.
Love and music following Leonard Cohen in Hydra
